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Rogues are preferable to imbeciles

  Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. - Alexandre Dumas I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. - Mark Twain Actions lie louder than words. - Carolyn Wells Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. - Herbert Hoover Strong reasons make strong actions. - William Shakespeare Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm. - Jean Paul Richter No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. - Lily Tomlin Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. - Plutarch You must not come lightly to the blank page. - Stephen King Reason should direct and appetite obey. - Cicero

Courage is being scared to death

  Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. - Sidney J. Harris Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. - David T. Wolf Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. - Mark Twain No man ever listened himself out of a job. - Calvin Coolidge Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin A friend is a gift you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. - Carol Burnett Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. - Dale Carnegie I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke READ MORE

Give all to love

  Give all to love; obey thy heart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles M. Schulz All things must change to something new, to something strange. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The body says what words cannot. - Martha Graham Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. - Josh Billings The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. - George Bernard Shaw A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. - H. L. Mencken No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. - Lily Tomlin Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. - Robert Anton Wilson Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. - Vachel Lindsay READ MORE

Dreams come true

  Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. - Albert Einstein Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. - Friedrich von Schiller The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. - Oscar Wilde The wisest men follo...