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When you play, play hard...

  Theodore Roosevelt When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. --Theodore Roosevelt Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. --Thomas Jefferson Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. --Abraham Lincoln If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. --Agatha Christie I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. --Johnny Carson Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. --Charles Dickens It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. --Jerry Seinfeld The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. --Joseph Heller, Catch 22 Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a ste...

10 Quotes

Truth is what stands the test of experience. - Albert Einstein Hitch your wagon to a star. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "American Civilization", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862 The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. - Oscar Wilde Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. - Lord Chesterfield Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. - Henry Ward Beecher Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. - Isaac Newton Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. - Charles Dickens A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. - William S. Burroughs The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. - Edith Wharton Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - William James Check out 【Hot In Japan 】Toilet Bowl Cleaner ...

10 quotes for today

Oscar Wilde. Photo: Google Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. - Henry David Thoreau I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. - Anthony Burgess Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. - Bill Gates Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. - Charles Dickens Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. - Plato Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. - Carol Burnett If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. - Norman Douglas