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181. The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.- Mark Twain

182. You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.-Cecil Baxter

183. How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.- Henry David Thoreau

184. Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down. Unknown

185. A mother is a person who seeing there are only 4 pieces of pie for 5 people, promptly says she never did care for pie.-Tenneva Jordan

186. A mother is only as happy as her unhappiest child-Unknown

187. I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.-Wilson Mizner

188. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.-Albert Einstein

189. Eighty percent of success is showing up.-Woody Allen

190. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.-William Arthur Ward



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171. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. – Abraham Lincoln

172. One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.-Margaret Mead

173. Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. – Jane Austen

174. Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.-Stephen Vizinczey, Hungarian novelist

175. Sometimes I think war is God’s way of teaching us geography. -Paul Rodriguez

176. Whatever you are, be a good one.- Abraham Lincoln

177. Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. – Frank Lloyd Wright

178. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.- Beverly Sills

179. I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. – Marlene Dietrich

180. Words have a longer life than deeds,- Pindar



More Quotes

161. A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.- Wilma Askinas

162. No amount of success can compensate for failure in the home.- David O. McKay

163. First they ignore you; then they laugh at you; then they attack you; then you win.- Mahatma Gandhi

164. It’s a job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish.- J. R. R. Tolkien

165. A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men. – Anonymous

166. I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. – Mark Twain

167. Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.- Anonymous

168. The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost

169. The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. – Laurence J. Peter

170. Nobody believes the official spokesman… but everybody trusts an unidentified source.- Ron Nessen, former press secretary to President



The List Goes On

151. On the road of life, it’s not where you go, but who’s by our side that makes the difference.- Anonymous

152. Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.- Elbert Hubbard

153. Constant dripping hollows out a stone.- Lucretius

154. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.- J. R. R. Tolkien

155. If you think education is expensive - try ignorance. Bok’s Law

156. Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.- Phillips Brooks

157. One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.- AA Milne

158. The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.- David Starr Jordan

159. Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.- Mark Twain

160. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.- Norman MacFinan



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141. Everyone smiles in the same language-Anonymous

142. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.- Eleanor Roosevelt

143. The only thing worse than a man you can’t control is a man you can. – Margo Kaufman

144. Now, here you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!-Lewis Carroll

145. A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.- Alistair Cooke

146. Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

147. You only make mistakes if you’re doing real work and getting things done.- Anonymous

148. Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. – Evan Esar

149. A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. – Jerry Seinfeld

150. Someone’s boring me. I think it’s me. – Dylan Thomas



Quotes for the Book

131. It is not what you say, but how you say it.- A. Putt

132. About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. – Herbert Hoover

133. I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. – Marlene Dietrich

134. He can do more for others who has done most with himself.- S.D. Gordon

135. The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination.- Mahatma Gandhi

136. The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught. – Marquis de Vauvenargues

137. Children need models rather than critics.- Joseph Joubert

138. Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.- Oscar Wilde

139. The road to failure is paved with negativity.-Tiger Woods

140. For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.- Virginia Woolf



More Quotes

121. If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.- Mother Teresa

122. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.- Colin Powell

123. Never judge someone by who he’s in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.- Cynthia Heimel

124. The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost

125. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. – Samuel Johnson

126. And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.- Earl Mac Rauch

127. On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. – George Orwell

128. If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters.- Abigail Van Buren

129. Success doesn’t “happen.” It is organized, preempted, captured, by consecrated common sense. -F.E. Willard

130. Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.- Thomas Carlyle



Quotes and More Quotes

111. Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you’ll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.- William Bennett

112. 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.- E. W. Howe

113. The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.-Voltaire

114. Laughter is the language of the Gods.- Buddhist saying

115. Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.- Paul Valery

116. When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.- Samuel Goldwyn

117. Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. – Faith Whittlesey

118. The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.- William F. Scolavino

119. If at first you don’t succeed, you are running about average.- M.H. Alderson

120. There must be more to life than having everything. – Maurice Sendak



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101. All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.- Franklin P. Jones

102. A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.- Peter McArthur

103. It’s a job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish.- J. R. R. Tolkien

104. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

105. Never knock on Death’s door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that! – Matt Frewer

106. The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.- Helen Keller

107. No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.- Mother Teresa

108. I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.- Mitch Hedberg

109. Don’t wait for your “ship to come in” and feel angry and cheated when it doesn’t. Get going with something small.- Irene Kassorla

110. Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. – James M. Barrie



Addidng Quotes

91. Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be.- Wayne Gretzky

92. A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.- Doug Larson

93. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.- Roy Goodman

94. I cannot hold up any book and say, ‘Here. This is what I believe.’ I do not know of any church where I would feel at home. But I do believe that what people call God refers to something real… I would even go so far as to say that this God of mine makes demands. To learn, to teach, to engage. To be aware of and respect the world around me. To acknowledge that there are things greater then myself and to be humble in their presence.—Dan Jackson

95. I don’t really work on absolutes. I think it’s impossible to say absolutely yes or no to just about anything.-Joshua Jackson

96. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.- Mark Twain

97. If men were angels, no government would be necessary. – James Madison

98. You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. – Michael Pritchard

99. Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. – Albert Einstein

100. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy



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