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Thomas ? Kempis: Would to God...

Thomas ? Kempis: Would to God...

Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!

Source: The Imitation of...

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Thomas ? Kempis: We are often...

Thomas ? Kempis: We are often...

We are often moved with passion and think it to be zeal.

Source: De Imitatione...

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E M Forster: The most successful...

E M Forster: The most successful...

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful...

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Robert Frost: Why abandon a...

Robert Frost: Why abandon a...

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and. . . it will turn true again,...

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J August Strindberg: I loathe people...

J August Strindberg: I loathe people...

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people...

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Alexander Pope: Happy the man...

Alexander Pope: Happy the man...

Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air,
In his own...

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Oscar Wilde: Nowadays to be...

Oscar Wilde: Nowadays to be...

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

Source: Lord Darlington, in Lady...

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George Bernard Shaw: All great truths...

George Bernard Shaw: All great truths...

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Source: Annajanska.
-- George Bernard...

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George Bernard Shaw: All that the...

George Bernard Shaw: All that the...

All that the young can do for the old is to shock them and keep them up to date.

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Peter Drucker: The only thing...

Peter Drucker: The only thing...

The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.

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George Bernard Shaw: Life levels all...

George Bernard Shaw: Life levels all...

Life levels all men: death reveals the eminent.

Source: Maxims for...

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Oscar Wilde: Technique is really...

Oscar Wilde: Technique is really...

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and...

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George Bernard Shaw: What is laisser-faire...

George Bernard Shaw: What is laisser-faire...

What is laisser-faire but an orthodoxy? The most tyrannous and disastrous of all the orthodoxies, since it forbids...

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Oliver Stone: One of the...

Oliver Stone: One of the...

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose...

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Robert Bresson: An old thing...

Robert Bresson: An old thing...

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what surrounds it.

Source: Notes on...

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Tallulah Bankhead: I'll come and...

Tallulah Bankhead: I'll come and...

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

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Roseanne Barr: My husband and...

Roseanne Barr: My husband and...

My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.

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Lily Tomlin: Sometimes I worry...

Lily Tomlin: Sometimes I worry...

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Source: In Webster's...

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Gilda Radner: It's such an...

Gilda Radner: It's such an...

It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death....

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David Garrick: That's easier said...

David Garrick: That's easier said...

That's easier said than done.

Source: Neck or Nothing; this expression is quite old...

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