Anonymous Quotes

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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Often attributed to Émile Zola

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Often attributed to Thomas Edison

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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

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A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Often attributed to Edmund Burke, but it has not been found in his original works

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
Often attributed to Adolf Hitler

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Often attributed to Mark Twain

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We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone.

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The fish dies because he opens his mouth.

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To live a life through is not like crossing a field.

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Uprose the Monarch of the Glen
Majestic from his lair,
Surveyed the scene with piercing ken,
And snuffed the fragrant air.

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It's good to be merry and wise,
It's good to be honest and true;
It's good to be off with the old love,
Before you are on with the new.

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Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
Attributed to Muhammad Ali based on its use in Adidas ads.

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If you want to be happy for a day, go fishing. If you want to be happy for a week, get married. If you want to be happy for a month, kill a pig. If you want to be happy and contented for all time, smoke a pipe.

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Children: You spend the first two years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next sixteen years telling them to sit down and shut up.

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Ding dong bell,
Pussy's in the well.
Who put her in?
Little Johnny Green.

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It was a friar of orders gray Walked forth to tell his beads.

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He tickles this age that can
Call Tullia's ape a marmasyte
And Leda's goose a swan.

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When you are in jail a good friend will be bailing you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying 'Damn that was fun'.

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Between 50 and 60, sex is out there. If you want it, you can connect. After 60, you have to supply the sled, the snow and the dog team.

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I belong to that highly respectable tribe Which is known as the Shabby Genteel... Too proud to beg, too honest to steal.

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Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John,
He went to bed with his stockings on;
One shoe off, one shoe on;
Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John.

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Cattle die, kinsmen die,
the self must also die;
but glory never dies,
for the man who is able to achieve it.

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