Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
- Proverb, Chinese
- Proverb, Chinese
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y
- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y
For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.
- Eric Hoffer
- Eric Hoffer
Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
- Rhinehart, Mary Roberts
- Rhinehart, Mary Roberts
Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
- Einstein, Albert
- Einstein, Albert
The future is a boot smashing a human face forever.
- George Orwell
- George Orwell
Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world.
- Britney Spears
- Britney Spears
[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
- Diogenes the Cynic
- Diogenes the Cynic
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
- Suzuki, Daisetz T.
- Suzuki, Daisetz T.
By evil report and good report.
- Bible
- Bible
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
- Joseph Addison
- Joseph Addison
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
- Alexander Woolcott
- Alexander Woolcott
Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
- Yves Saint Laurent
- Yves Saint Laurent
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
- Kierkegaard, S°ren
- Kierkegaard, S°ren
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
- Austin O'Malley
- Austin O'Malley
The minute you start talking about what your going to do if you lose, you have lost.
- Shultz, George
- Shultz, George
When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
- Hannibal Buress
- Hannibal Buress
The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can't fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar.
- Marx, Groucho
- Marx, Groucho
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
- Publilius Syrus
- Publilius Syrus

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