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# · Not So Good (14 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two twenties.
# · Not So Good (74 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Give more than take.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Altruism and Cynicism
The College Blue Book (data CD)# · Not So Good (20 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation
# · Not So Good (15 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
Frank Herbert, Dune, in Altruism and Cynicism
Dune (paperback)# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
I live for books.
Thomas Jefferson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.
# · Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
# · Not So Good (12 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
The only way round is through.
# · Not So Good (14 ratings) · submitted 1997
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
# · Not So Good (18 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.
# · Not So Good (22 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep your eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole!
# · Not So Good (29 ratings) · submitted 1997
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones that never have it.
# · Not So Good (19 ratings) · submitted 1997
Money is like an arm or leg: use it or lose it.
# · Not So Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
# · Not So Good (22 ratings) · submitted 1997
Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.
Francis Bacon, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
# · Not So Good (10 ratings) · submitted 1997
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
# · Not So Good (23 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.
Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way, in Life and Death and War and Peace
The Greek Way (paperback)# · Not So Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.