What you cannot enforce, do not command. Sophocles
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. Sophocles
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another. Sophocles
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. Sophocles
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.Sophocles
What is the terror of death
That we die our work incomplete
What is the joy of life
To die knowing our task is doneIt is double the pleasure to cheat a cheater. Jean de la Fontaine
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. E. Letterman
If you would keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
"Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry" Henry Ward Beecher
"A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic." Stalin
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. H. L. Mencken
"Where there is love, there is pain."
"The souls of those who have quit the body violently are most pure Such end true lovers hath". Nephilim
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. James Thurber
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. James Thurber
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
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