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March 2004 Quotes

One who condones evils is just as guilty
as the one who perpetrates it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Guilt

Romance is the glamour which turns the
dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Elinor Glyn
Glamour

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb
Gossip

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Euripides
Grief

Happiness is a perfume which you
cannot pour on someone
without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness

Half of the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important.
They don't mean to do harm
But the harm does not interest them.
T. S. Eliot
Harm

Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people
as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov
Hatred

The healthy, the strong individual, is
the one who asks for help when he
needs it. Whether he has an abscess
on his knee or in his soul.
Rona Barrett
Health

Nothing ends nicely,
that's why it ends.
Tom Cruise
Heartbreak




We exaggerate misfortune and
happiness alike. We are never as bad off
or as happy as we say we are.
Honore De Balzac
Exaggeration

Everyone is a prisoner of his
own experiences. No one can eliminate
prejudices - just recognize them.
Edward R Murrow
Experience

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions.
But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard Baruch
Fact

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse
to try new things. The saddest summary
of a life contains three descriptions: could
have, might have, and should have.
Louis Boone
Failure

Those who are faithless know the pleasures of
love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies.
Oscar Wilde
Faithfulness

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down
usually have children who step on their toes.
Chinese Proverb
Family

Everything comes gradually
and at its appointed hour.
Ovid
Fate

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell
is necessary before you can meet again.
And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes,
is certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach
Farewells

Since love and fear can hardly coexist
together, if we must choose between them,
it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Fear

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to
the heads of cowards as quickly as of
heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield
when it's be brave or else be killed.
Margaret Mitchell
Fighting

Wise people talk because they have
something to say; fools, because
they have to say something.
Plato
Fools

While forbidden fruit is said to taste
sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
Abigail Van Buren
Forbidden

Laughter is not at all a bad
beginning for a friendship, and it
is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
Friendship

Blessed are those who can give without
remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
Giving