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  Drive thy business or it will drive thee. - Benjamin Franklin Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. - David Rockefeller A dinner lubricates business. - Lord William Stowell There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. - David Letterman No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. - Thorstein Veblen My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. - Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892 In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. - Warren Buffett I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. - G. K. Chesterton Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. - B. F....

  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...

  Image: ChatGPT When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. - Sir Winston Churchill Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour. - Edward M. Kennedy I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us. - Charles de Gaulle Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. - Baltasar Gracian Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal. - Oscar Wilde Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. - Laurence J. Peter A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld Tact is the ability to describe other...

  We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. - Ray Bradbury The higher the buildings, the lower the morals. - Noel Coward Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. - Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts" Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. - Cicero Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark Twain What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. - Thomas Paine Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. - Oscar Wilde Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S. Patton On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - George Orwell READ MORE

  Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. - G. K. Chesterton Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. - Antoinette Brown Blackwell Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. - Tallulah Bankhead You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. - Oscar Wilde To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. - Peter Ustinov They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. - Sir Francis Bacon I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. - John D. Rockefeller Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. - Samuel Goldwyn READ M...

  A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! - Walt Whitman The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. - Oscar Wilde If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. - Benjamin Franklin I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant. - Ring Lardner The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. - Daniel Webster I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. - Sir Winston Churchill READ MORE

  Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. --Napoleon Bonaparte A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. --Wayne Gretzky The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. --Robert Frost You can't have everything. Where would you put it? --Steven Wright Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. --Groucho Marx I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. --Galileo Galilei Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? --Henry Ward Beecher The truth is rarely pure and never simple. --Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. --William Arthur Ward Live forever or die in the attempt. --Joseph Heller, Catch 22 READ MORE INTERESTING

  Helen Keller When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. --Helen Keller Truth is what stands the test of experience. --Albert Einstein Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. --Samuel Butler Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. --Leo Tolstoy If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. --Oscar Wilde A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. --Emily Dickinson, No. 1333 Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. --William Arthur Ward In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. --Mark Twain To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. --Oliver Wendell Holmes Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie...

  Dorothy Fields Love is the reason for it all. --Dorothy Fields In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. -- Robert Heinlein What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do...? --Friedrich Nietzsche Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. --Dr. Seuss A short saying oft contains much wisdom. --Sophocles Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. --Oscar Wilde I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say. --Calvin Coolidge The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. --Whitney Young It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing...

  Rose Kennedy Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? --Rose Kennedy No wise man ever wished to be younger. --Jonathan Swift You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. --Abraham Lincoln The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. --Socrates Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. --Anthony Burgess This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. --Ralph Waldo Emerson That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election. --Will Rogers If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it. --Joyce Carol Oates I am not young enough...

  By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. --Socrates The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape... --Pablo Picasso It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. --Henry David Thoreau The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. --Cecil B. DeMille Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. --Eleanor Roosevelt We turn not older with years, but newer every day. --Emily Dickinson One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. --Oscar Wilde You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. -...

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 ...

Photo: Facts About Universal Medicine Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. - Spanish Proverb The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi Life is an adventure in forgiveness. - Norman Cousins It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. - Josh Billings Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. - Bertrand Russell Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. - Bob Hope

Ernest Hemingway. Photo: Chicago Tribune That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929 We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678) This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. - Oscar Wilde You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form. - Francis Ford Coppola There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. - Robert Louis Stevenson Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein Art is born of the o...

Photo: Biography.com Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. - Oscar Wilde You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. - Ray Bradbury Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. - Norman Mailer Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. - Archimedes He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit. - Sir Walter Scott Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. - Norman Vincent Peale All things must change to something new, to something strange. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The best mirror is an old friend. - George Herbert

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

One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese proverb Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude. - William Shakespeare Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. - Willa Cather, My Antonia Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. - Victor Hugo Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that...

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.  - Oscar Wilde  As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. -  Leonardo da Vinci  Man is what he believes.  - Anton Chekhov  True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.  - William Penn   A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.  - G. K. Chesterton  A room without books is like a body without a soul.  - Cicero  I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.   - Groucho Marx  Woe be to him that reads but one book.  - George Herbert  Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.  - Evan Esar Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.  - Ot...

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.  - Oscar Wilde

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.  - Oscar Wilde