10 quotes for today - 23 January 2019

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
- George Bernard Shaw

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
- Socrates

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
- Benjamin Franklin

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.
- Charles de Montesquieu

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
- Jules Renard

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
- Sir Winston Churchill

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Birds sing after a storm

Rose Kennedy Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? - Rose Kennedy You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. - Herman Melville There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. - Pablo Picasso If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way. -Jane Goodall The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. -Martin Mull A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. -John le Carre Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. -Alexandre Dumas As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust...

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Time sneaks up on you

Photo: Mike / Pexels Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. - John Lithgow A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. - Tallulah Bankhead You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. - e e cummings The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. - John F. Kennedy There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. - G. K. Chesterton 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 To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship. - Thomas Moore READ MORE NICE

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