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Jackie Mason. Photo: Google

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
- Jackie Mason


Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
- Mae West


A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt


Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Lord Chesterfield


Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
- Euripides


If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
- John Cleese


I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
- Harry S Truman


Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
- Spanish Proverb


No-one wants advice only corroboration.
- John Steinbeck
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