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714 Advice / Experience / Wisdom Quotes
“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes
“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes
“Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.”
Nelson Algren Quotes
“I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.”
Gene Fowler Quotes
“Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.”
Baron Wessenberg Quotes
“You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!.”
Franklyn Broude Quotes
“The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.”
Sharon Anthony Bower Quotes
“If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.”
John Atkinson Quotes
“These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.”
Walter Benjamin Quotes
“The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.”
Lord Jeffrey Quotes
“If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.”
Critias of Athens Quotes
“Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification.”
James Gordon Bennett Quotes
“Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?”
Maurice Freehill Quotes
“When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.”
Bernard Baily Quotes
“Respect is love in plain clothes.”
Frankie Byrne Quotes
“Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.”
Nadine Gordimer Quotes
“Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.”
Fredrich Halm Quotes
“Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.”
Jim Backus Quotes
“Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.”
Jimmy Durante Quotes
“Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.”
Quentin Crisp Quotes
“There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.”
John Jay Chapman Quotes
“A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.”
John Churton Collins Quotes
“Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.”
Satchel Paige Quotes
“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”
Ernesto Che Guevara Quotes
“When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes
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