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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

Those who dream by day

  Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe, 'Eleanora,' 1842 I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. - Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977 One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A. A. Milne The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. - Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952 To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. - Albert Einstein Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.  - Emily Dicki...