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If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your
business.
Joey Adams
Smack your child every day. If you don't know why -- he does.
Joey Adams
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop
Never judge a work of art by its defects.
Washington Allston
Remember: It is 10 times harder to command the ear than to catch the eye.
Duncan Maxwell Anderson
Don't just stand there -- do something.
Anonymous
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
Anonymous
Always imitate the behavior of winners when you lose.
Anonymous
If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record.
Anonymous
Take care that the face that looks out from the mirror in the
morning is a pleasant face. You may not see it again during the day, but
others will.
Anonymous
If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the
world will not raise your price.
Anonymous
Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
Yassir Arafat
Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first.
Brooks Atkinson
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
John Atkinson
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people
with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing;
the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
Marcus Aurelius
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most
agreeable.
Francis Bacon
Never practice two vices at once.
Tallulah Bankhead
Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.
Maurice Baring
When you see a snake, never mind where he came from.
W.G. Benham
Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has
happened.
Arnold Bennett
Call no man foe but never love a stranger.
Stella Benson
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
Al Bernstein
Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.
Ambrose Bierce
Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business.
Cheat.
Ambrose Bierce
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can
let go when you want to.
Josh Billings
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
Josh Billings
Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
Josh Billings
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Erma Bombeck
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
Elizabeth Bowen
Never use intuition.
Omar Bradley
Always behave like a duck -- keep calm and unruffled on the surface
but paddle like the devil underneath.
Jacob Braude
If you can't return a favour, pass it on.
Louise Brown
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well
dressed.
Beau Brummel
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is boring without it.
Pearl S. Buck
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Leo F. Buscaglia
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give
clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Aaron Burr
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
Charles Buxton
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot
create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus.
Don't wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
Albert Camus
You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a
kind word alone.
Al Capone
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.
Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger.
If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of
themselves.
Dale Carnegie
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying
there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Dale Carnegie
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then
stop.
Lewis Carrol, from Alice in Wonderland
Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes
In action, be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
Rene Char
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Lord Chesterfield
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment
of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination: never put off till
tomorrow what you can do today.
Lord Chesterfield
Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.
Lord Chesterfield
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G. K. Chesterton
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in
the room.
Winston Churchill
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or
clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back
and hit it again. Then hit it a third time--a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
John Churton Collins
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck
out.
James Bryant Conant
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with People
Don Corleone from The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Sunburn is very becoming -- but only when it is even -- one must be
careful not to look like a mixed grill.
Noel Coward
Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard
pressed.
Coleman Cox
There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire
someone, or forbid your kids to do it.
Monta Crane
Put your trust in God -- but keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery.
Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man
must stay sober: not always, but most of the time.
Clarence Day
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not
on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
Keep up appearances whatever you do.
Charles Dickens
Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it.
Paul Dickson
Never take anything for granted.
Benjamin Disraeli
Never complain and never explain.
Benjamin Disraeli
Trust Everybody, but cut the cards.
Finley Peter Dunne
Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish
last.
Leo Durocher
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Tryon Edwards
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
Big Ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill.
Don't forget that, all of
you who don't have them.
John Elliot, Jr.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
First, learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Epictetus
Slight not what's near, when aiming at what's far.
Euripides
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if
you have any, will take care of itself.
Joseph Farrell
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your
children.
William Feather
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and
furthermore always carry a small snake.
W. C. Fields
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it; if you are
sick, you shouldn't take it.
Henry Ford
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I
have in my library are books that other folks have leant me.
Anatole France
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it
and
copy it.
Anatole France
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than
intellect.
Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff
life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
What is required is sight and insight -- then you might add one
more: excite.
Robert Frost
Don't be an agnostic. Be something.
Robert Frost
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thomas Fuller
Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't
cross a chasm in two small steps.
David Lloyd George
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance
King George V
Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything
else.
Andre Gide
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
Khalil Gibran
Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following
you.
Henry Gilmer
Make your life a mission -- not an intermission.
Glasgow
Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
Goethe
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
Sidney Goff
Never make forecasts, especially about the future.
Samuel Goldwyn
When someone does something good, Applaud! You will make two people
happy.
Samuel Goldwyn
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Roy Goodman
Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.
Edmund Gosse
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones
invariably slink in after it..
Baltasar Gracian.
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Baltasar Gracian
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Baltasar Gracian.
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.
Daniel Greenberg
Don't tell your friends about your indegestion. "How are you." is a
greeting, not a question.
Arthur Guiterman
A promise must never be broken.
Alexander Hamilton
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of
trouble.
Sidney J. Harris
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a
couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train
yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mary Hemingway
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
George Herbert
Don't ever slam the door; you might want to go back.
Don Herold
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the
expression of opinions that we loathe.
Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.
Speak clearley, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let
it fall.
Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.
Never get married in the morning, 'cause you may never know who
you'll meet that night.
Paul Hornung
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is
anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
E. W. Howe
When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what
people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off
your troubles.
E. W. Howe
If you want work well done, select a busy man -- the other kind has
no time
Elbert Hubbard
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Elbert Hubbard
If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still
call him vile names.
Elbert Hubbard
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her
eyes.
Victor Hugo
If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the
topic of eating.
Leigh Hunt
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge
everyone and everything for yourself.
Henry James
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook.
Thomas Jefferson
Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
Thomas Jefferson.
If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes--stop boring!
George Jessel
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience.
You will find it a calamity.
Samuel Johnson
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
Franz Kafka.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Henry J. Kaiser
Forgive, but never forget.
John F. Kennedy
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong,
you cannot be too conservative.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend
it to your neighbors.
Rudyard Kipling
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments
reaching the proper ears.
Rudyard Kipling
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
Karl Kraus
Life is short; live it up.
Nikita Krushchev
If you cannot catch a Bird of Paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Kruschev
Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all
things. You cannot do more. You should never do less.
Robert E. Lee
If your wife wants to learn to drive, don't stand in her way.
Stan Levenson
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us
to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln
No problem is so big and complicated that it can't be run away from.
Linus (Peanuts character by Charles Schultz)
Run to daylight.
Vince Lombardi
No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.
Henry Wadsworth Lonfellow
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to
bear are those which never happen.
James Russel Lowell
Decide promptly, but never give your reasons. Your decisions may be
right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Lord Mansfield
Don't be so humble. You're not that great.
Golda Meir
Do not overestimate the decency of the human race.
H.L. Mencken
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
Nancy Mitford
Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same
people on the way down.
Wilson Mizner
My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never
quite believe it.
Robert Montgomery
There is only one rule for being a good talker -- learn to listen.
Christopher Morley
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for your
old age.
Christopher Morley
Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win
unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon
Never play cards with a man named Doc, and never eat at a place
called Mom's.
John O'Hara
The secret of business is to know something nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis
Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back
from somewhere expensive.
Aristotle Onassis
Never argue; repeat your assertion
Robert Owen
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the olympics in
somebody's back yard.
Jesse Owens
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale
Never eat anything at one sitting that you can't lift.
Miss Piggy (Muppet character, by Jim Henson/Frank Oz)
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they
will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above
all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.
Joseph Pulitzer
When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do
the most disagreeable first.
Josiah Quincy
Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around
the bases..
John W. Raper
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody
wishes you well.
Dan Rather
There are moments when everything ges well; don't be frightened, it
won't last.
Jules Renard
Do not wait for extrordinary circumstances to do good; try to use
ordinary situations.
Jean Paul Richter
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to
the town gossip.
Will Rogers
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold
it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Will Rogers
Less is more. God is in the details.
Mies van der Rohe
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be
criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do
and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Rooseveldt
If you treat people right they will treat you right -- ninty percent of the time.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I
can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but
never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
Theodore Rooseveldt
Never invest in anything that eats or needs repairing.
Billy Rose
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what
you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
Jean Jacques Rosseau
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at
a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the
fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and
only you can determine how it will be spent.
Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?.
Frank Scully
The greatest gift a man can give to his children,
is to love their Mother.
George Bernard Shaw
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson,
hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.
George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you might as well make
it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
Never try to reason the predjudice out of a man. It wasn't reasoned
into him, and cannot be
reasoned out.
Sydney Smith
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Socrates
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Socrates
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore
avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Socrates
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.
Sophocles
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.
Janet Erskine Stuart
Never promise more than you can perform.
Publius Syrus
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Madame de Tencin
It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in
awareness.
James Thurber
For fast acting relief, try slowing down.
Lily Tomlin
Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people
prefer to be thought enigmas.
Marchioness Townsend
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them
on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for
anything.
Harry S. Truman
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
Mark Twain
The best way to chear yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else
up.
Mark Twain
When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
Mark Twain
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want,
drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
Mark Twain
We ought never do wrong when people are looking.
Mark Twain
Get the facts first. You can distort them later.
Mark Twain
When in doubt, tell the truth.
Mark Twain
I've always followed my father's advice: He told me, first, to
always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody
unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddam sure I intend to.
And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.
John Wayne
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Daniel Webster
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
The way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), from The Picture of Dorian Gray
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy
the ice cream while it's on your plate..
Thornton Wilder
Never murder a man who is committing suicide.
Woodrow Wilson
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you
must find things in yourself, for a life without faith in something is
too narrow a place to live.
George E. Woodberry
Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.
Henry Wotton
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build
a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the
money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.
Frank Loyd Wright
If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for
tomorrow morning, sleep late.
Henny Youngman
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