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You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
Topic: Risk
The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts. -Nietzche.
Author: Nietzche
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Topic: Friendship
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
Topic: Cynicism
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
Topic: Advice
Author: Euripides
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Topic: Future
I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.
Topic: Politics
Author: Fisher Ames
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
Topic: Courtesy
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.
Topic: Cliches
"Is ignorance or apathy the biggest problem with the world today?" "I don't know and I don't care".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only of the writer, artist and scientist, but of creators in other fields...With the noncreative it is the other way around: in whatever they do, they arrange things so that they themselves become indispensable.
Author: Eric Hoffer
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
Topic: Vice
Author: Seneca
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Topic: Sports
Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
Topic: Fancy
Author: John Bunyan
My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
Topic: Heart
Author: Cervantes
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
Topic: Faith
They converse as those who know that God hears.
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.
Topic: Humanity