"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."
--Robert Benchley
"You can't build a reputation on what you're GOING to do."
--Henry Ford
"Fall seven times. Stand up eight."
--Japanese Proverb
"The real secret of success is enthusiasm."
--Walter Chrysler
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."
--Thoreau
"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
--Gandhi
"We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know."
--W. H. Auden
"He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh."
--The Koran
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."
--Emerson
"Be bold--and mighty forces will come to your aid."
--Basil King
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."
--Thoreau
"The superior man things always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."
--Confucius
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
--Daniel J. Boorstin
"The sun will set without thy assistance."
--The Talmud
Wisdom has two parts:
1) Having a lot to say.
2) Not saying it.
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