It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
- Johnson, Samuel
- Johnson, Samuel
We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.
- Golda Meir
- Golda Meir
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
- Doug Larson
- Doug Larson
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
- Camus, Albert
- Camus, Albert
Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven.
- I Ching
- I Ching
Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.
However great a man’s natural talent May be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Joyce Carol Oates
Luxuries are never so comfortable as are the familiar, ordinary things of home.
- Eucharista Ward
- Eucharista Ward
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.
- Lillian Hellman
- Lillian Hellman
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
- William Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare
For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.
- Butler, Samuel
- Butler, Samuel
A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
- Collyer, Robert
- Collyer, Robert
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
- Churchill, Winston
- Churchill, Winston
Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- Clive Jones
- Clive Jones
If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.
- Pythagoras
- Pythagoras
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
- Tallulah Bankhead
- Tallulah Bankhead
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.
- Shakespeare, William
- Shakespeare, William
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
- Bruyere, Jean De La
- Bruyere, Jean De La

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