Famous Quotes

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Simone Weil:

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

John Maxwell:

The Depth of your Mythology is the Extent of your Effectiveness.

Dame Edith Sitwell:

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Aristotle:

The gods too are fond of a joke

Rita Mae Brown:

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

William Shakespeare:

The soul of this man is in his clothes.

Unknown:

In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out.

John Gray, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus:

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

David Brooks:

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

Dom Helder Camara:

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

George Sand:

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Oscar Wilde, , in a letter to his friend, Frances Forbes-Robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in London, but Wilde was:

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

Venezuelan Proverb:

Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.

George S. Patton:

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Phyllis Mcginley:

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.