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- Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia Earhart
- Never exaggerate your faults; your friends will attend to that.
Robert C. Edwards
- 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.
- Make yourself necessary to someone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- First, learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Epictetus
- Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Erik Erikson
- Slight not what's near, when aiming at what's far.
Euripides
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- 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
- Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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
- Keep conscience clear
Then never fear.
Benjamin Franklin
- 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
- Wait till it is night before saying it was a fine day.
French Proverb
- Don't find fault with what you don't understand.
French Proverb
- What is required is sight and insight -- then you might add one more: excite.
Robert Frost
- You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.
Robert Frost
- Don't be an agnostic. Be something.
Robert Frost
- Do as most do, and few will speak ill of thee.
Thomas Fuller
- Don't fight forces; use them.
Buckminster Fuller
- Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thomas Fuller
- Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.
Thomas Fuller
- Take heed: most men will cheat without scruple where they can do it withour fear.
Thomas Fuller
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- 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
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- Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guy's out dancing.
Buddy Hackett
- Never do for a child what he si capable of doing for himself.
Elizabeth G. hainstock
- 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
- Drink not the third glass -- which thou can'st not tame once it is within thee.
George Herbert
- 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
- Whoever would lie usefully should lie seldom.
Lord Hervey
- 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 Dispair
Nil desperandum
Horace ['Odes']
- Seize the day, put little trust in the future.
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Horace ['Odes' ]
- 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.
Edgar Watson 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.
Edgar Watson Howe
- A good scare is worth more to a man than dood advice.
Edgar Watson Howe
- If you want to know how old a woman is, ask her sister-in law.
Edgar Watson Howe
- If you want work well done, select a busy man -- the other kind has
no time
Elbert Hubbard
- Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
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
- To escape criticism -- do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
- When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her
eyes.
Victor Hugo
- If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
Victor Hugo
- If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the
topic of eating.
Leigh Hunt
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