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June 2004 Quotes

I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is
trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
Success

It is not true that suffering ennobles the
character; happiness does that sometimes,
but suffering for the most part,
makes men petty and vindictive.
W. Somerset Maugham
Suffering

There is no rule more invariable than that we are
paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau
Suspicion

Tact is the ability to make a
person see lightning without
letting him feel the bolt.
Orlando A. Battista
Tact

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is
well to stop when you get down to the skin.
Austin O'Malley
Taxes

The worst-tempered people I've
ever met were the people
who knew they were wrong.
Wilson Mizener
Temper

The prudence of the best heads
is often defeated by tenderness
of the best hearts.
Henry Fielding
Tenderness

Folks that blurt out just what they think
wouldn't be so bad if they thought.
Kin Hubbard
Thought

Do not be too timid or squeamish about
your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Timidity

As no roads are so rough as those
that have just been mended,
so no sinners are so intolerant as
those that have just turned saints.
Charles Caleb Colton
Tolerance

The prudence of the best heads
is often defeated by tenderness
of the best hearts.
Henry Fielding
Tenderness

As no roads are so rough as those
that have just been mended,
so no sinners are so intolerant as
those that have just turned saints.
Charles Caleb Colton
Tolerance

Love all, trust a few.
Do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
Trust

Live each day the fullest you can,
not guaranteeing there'll be a tomorrow,
not dwelling endlessly on yesterday.
Jane Seymour

The opposite of a correct statement is
a false statement. But the opposite
of a profound truth may well
be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr
Truth

The eye sees only what the mind
is prepared to comprehend.
Henri Bergson
Understanding

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done
in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
John Ruskin
Rivalry

The world will never have lasting peace so long
as men reserve for war the finest human qualities.
Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and
self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
John Foster Dulles
Sacrifice

The salvation of mankind lies only in
making everything the concern of all.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Salvation

How can we accept another to keep our secret
if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Secrets

No one can build his security upon
the nobleness of another person.
Willa Cather
Security

Men are not against you; they
are merely for themselves.
Gene Fowler
Selfishness

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism,
a belief that how we look, how we perform,
is truly important to other people.
André Dubus
Shyness

He that would live in peace and
at ease, must not speak all he
knows, nor judge all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin
Silence

Commit a sin twice and it
will not seem a crime.
Jewish Proverb
Sin