Many a woman drives a man to drink water.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
- Georges Clemenceau
- Georges Clemenceau
People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
- Lichtenberg, Georg C.
- Lichtenberg, Georg C.
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
- Goldsmith, Oliver
- Goldsmith, Oliver
Once in the racket you're always in it.
- Al Capone
- Al Capone
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy.
- Laurie Jr., Joe
- Laurie Jr., Joe
Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.
- Johnston, Ben
- Johnston, Ben
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
- Dickens, Charles
- Dickens, Charles
Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Franklin, Benjamin
Death is the only grammatically correct full stopà
- Brian Patten
- Brian Patten
Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.
- Driscoll, Louise
- Driscoll, Louise
The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.
- Munger, Thornton T.
- Munger, Thornton T.
Office without pay makes thieves.
- Proverb, German
- Proverb, German
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
- Keller, Helen
- Keller, Helen
Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us.
- Stowell, Joseph
- Stowell, Joseph
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
- Indira Gandhi
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
- Edison, Thomas A.
- Edison, Thomas A.
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

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