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Love is an irresistible desire

  Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. - Seneca Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Benjamin Franklin Never spend your money before you have it. - Thomas Jefferson When anger rises, think of the consequences. - Confucius Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. - Sophia Loren Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. - Otto von Bismarck If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. - Henry David Thoreau Take what you can use and let the rest go by. - Ken Kesey The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. - G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14 READ MORE

Honesty is a good thing

  Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. - Don Marquis Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. - Albert Camus I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J. D. Salinger Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. - Robert Louis Stevenson Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. -Mark Twain This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream. - Bill Murray The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. - Ronald ...

A lie can travel halfway around the world

  A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! - Walt Whitman The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. - Oscar Wilde If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. - Benjamin Franklin I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant. - Ring Lardner The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. - Daniel Webster I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. - Sir Winston Churchill READ MORE

Wisdom listens

  Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. - Willa Cather Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law. - Japanese Proverb The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. - Robert Benchley The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time. - George Bernard Shaw Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any. - Ralph Waldo Emerson They certainly give very strange names to diseases. - Plato Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! - Theodore Roosevelt Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. - Norman Mailer READ MORE

The public will believe anything

  The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. - Edith Sitwell It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. - Mark Twain Energy is eternal delight. - William Blake Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself. - Liberace If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. - Robert Louis Stevenson Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. - Bill Gates Be sincere; be brief; be seated. - Franklin D. Roosevelt Complain to one who can help you. - Yugoslav Proverb READ MORE

Give all to love

  Give all to love; obey thy heart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson In the fight between you and the world, back the world.  - Frank Zappa If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. - Bob Hope To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship. - Thomas Moore Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - Robert Frost The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. - Woodrow Wilson A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. - George Bernard Shaw Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. - Leonardo da Vinci READ MORE NICE