- I -
- To a quick question, give a slow answer.
Italian Proverb
- J -
- 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.
- Have the courage to act instead of react.
Earlene Larson Jenks
- If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes--stop boring!
George Jessel
- What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your tongue.
Jewish Proverb
- Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!
Philander Chase Johnson [in 'Everybody;'s Magazine', 1920]
- Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel Johnson [letter, 1782]
- Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is indelicate and may be offensive.
Samuel Johnson
- Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience.
You will find it a calamity.
Samuel Johnson
- If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
Sanuel Johnson [letter, 1779]
- Never worry about the things you can replace, worry only about the things you can't replace.
Winnie Johnson
- Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong
- Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.
Ben Jonson
- Calumnies are answered best with silence.
Ben Jonson, ['Volpone', 1605]
- Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.
Janis Joplin
- Never cut what you can untie.
Joseph Joubert
- K -
- 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
- Don't agonize, organize.
Florynce Kennedy
- Forgive, but never forget.
John F. Kennedy
- Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
Corita Kent
- When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
Jack Kevorkian
- 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
- L -
- 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
- Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Doris Lessing
- If your wife wants to learn to drive, don't stand in her way.
Stan Levenson
- You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.
Joseph E. Levine
- How do you make a million? Start with $900,000.
Stephen Lewis
- 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
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