Anonymous Quotes

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As I was a-walking one morning for pleasure, I spied a cowpuncher a-riding along.

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Great Chatham with his sabre drawn
Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan;
Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em,
Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham.

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O Death, where is thy sting-a-ling-a-ling,
O grave, thy victory?
The bells of Hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling
For you but not for me.

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Though I yield to no one in my admiration for Mr Coolidge, I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

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Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets.

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Standing around in the rain and cold is what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.
Variant: The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that's what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

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Nothing is easier than spending money—nothing is harder to accumulate.

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When asked how he was different from the average person, Einstein replied: "When asked to look for a needle in a haystack, the average person would search until he found the needle; whereas I would look for all needles."
Einstein never really said that though

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Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.

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For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
Often attributed to Hemingway

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Experience: Something that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Variant: Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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When you come right down to it, the secret of the whole thing is the question of supply and demand. No matter what business you are in, if you haven't got the demand you won't get the price for your product.

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Of the humorist Henry Clapp:
His talent was essentially that of the French Feuilletonistes — bright, keen, and witty, but unsubstantial and ephemeral.

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Two cannibals were eating a clown – one said to the other, 'Does he taste funny to you?'
Variant: Why don’t cannibals eat clowns? Because they taste funny!

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The executive told his secretary: Answer the letter for me, but be careful not to loose my temper.

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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

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The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.

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Isn't it funny that day by day, nothing changes but when you look back, everything is different?

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Often misattributed to John Quincy Adams

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Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few pages you're doomed.

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Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music.
Variant: They who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music.

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Success is what happens when 10,000 hours of preparation meet with one moment of opportunity.

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When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci

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But success takes care of itself. Faults in inventing are the things to look for. Trouble, honestly faced, is the beginning of progress.

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If life is properly lived and character is made and acted out "success" takes care of itself.

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Sport, not winning, is the chief end of games. How the game is played is of far more consequence than who wins it.

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Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
Often misattributed to Eleanor Roosevelt

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Science Finds - Industry Applies - Man Conforms.

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To call such a tabulation statistics, is like calling the map of a November shower of meteors a text book on astronomy.

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Let conversations cease. Let laughter depart. This is the place where death delights to help the living.
Often attributed to Giovanni Battista Morgagni

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