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The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.
A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.
Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.
The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up
All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up.
I've kept most of my friends for decades, and I continue to make new friends.
To make one people better than the other would be ungodly in the first place.
Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.
Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.
Never play cards with a man named Doc, and never eat at a place called Mom's.
Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype as from a firearm.
What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.
I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.
Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me.
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
There are holes in our lives that can never be filled - not really, not ever.
We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames
Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look?
Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.
I’m living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.
I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.
Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.
The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.
Belief is knowing what you believe. Conviction is knowing why you believe it.
What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.
Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.
You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.
Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.