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July 2005 Quotes
About all you can do in life is be who you are.
Some people will love you for you.
Most will love you for what you can do
for them, and some won't like you at all.
Rita Mae Brown
Self-laudation abounds among
the unpolished, but nothing can stamp
a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Charles Burton
Sorrow is knowledge,
those that know the most
must mourn the deepest,
the tree of knowledge is
not the tree of life.
Lord George Byron
The optimist proclaims that we
live in the best of all possible worlds;
and the pessimist fears this is so.
James Branch Cabell
A man begins cutting his
wisdom teeth the first time he bites
off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen
It is easier to find men who will
volunteer to die, than to find
those who are willing to
endure pain with patience.
Julius Caesar
There is no use whatever trying to help
people who do not help themselves. You
cannot push anyone up a ladder
unless he be willing to climb himself.
Andrew Carnegie
How well I have learned that there is no
fence to sit on between heaven and hell.
There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in
that chasm is no place for any man.
Johnny Cash
Jests that give pains are no jests.
Miguel de Cervantes
Any idiot can face a crisis,
it's the day to day living
that wears you out.
Anton Chekov
It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill
I know of no man of genius who had
not to pay, in some affliction or defect
either physical or spiritual, for
what the gods had given him.
Max Beerbohm
One-half the troubles of this
life can be traced to saying yes
too quickly and not
saying no soon enough.
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
Nobody speaks the truth when
there's something they must have.
Elizabeth E Bowen
You don't have to burn books
to destroy a culture. Just get
people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury
Authority without wisdom
is like a heavy axe without
an edge, fitter
to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet
The trouble with making
intelligent suggestions is that
you're apt to be
appointed to carry them out.
Gene Brown
People take different roads seeking
fulfillment and happiness. Just because
they're not on your road doesn't
mean they've gotten lost.
H Jackson Brown
About all you can do in life is be who you are.
Some people will love you for you.
Most will love you for what you can do
for them, and some won't like you at all.
Rita Mae Brown
Self-laudation abounds among
the unpolished, but nothing can stamp
a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Charles Burton
