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  1. Myth does not mean something untrue, but a concentration of truth.
  2. A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
  3. To kiss a fool is bad, but to let a fool kiss you is worse.
  4. When a mad man walks naked it's his kinsmen who feel shame not himself.
  5. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there is no cure for a big head.
  6. He who asks a question is a fool for a moment but he who does not ask a question is a fool forever.
  7. Take pride in how far you have come, have faith in how far you can go.
  8. That day is lost on which one has not laughed.
  9. A little hole will sink a great ship.
  10. Don't neglect the small details, they can seem so enormous later on.
  11. To admit one is wrong is a modest form of demonstrating that one has become wiser.
  12. A sorrow shared is half as bad, a joy shared is twice as glad.
  13. The old believes everything; the middle- aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
  14. Failure to plan is planning to fail.
  15. Look busy even if you are not.
  16. In life there are three kinds of people;
    1. Those who make things happen,
    2. Those who watch things happen, and
    3. Those who wonder what happened.
  17. True friends commend, defend and lend.
    They don't offend, pretend or end.
  18. When I do good no one remembers. When I do bad no one forgets.
  19. Small minds discuss people,
    Idle minds discuss problems,
    Great minds discuss ideas.
  20. A brilliant mind and a sharp tongue are seldom found in the same skull.
  21. Desire determines destiny.
  22. The christian army is the only army that destroys its injured soldiers.
  23. The more things change the more they remain the same.
  24. There are two....
    • things people worry about these days- one is that things may never get back to normal, the other, that they have already.
    • basic groups of people- the wishful thinkers who throw coins in fountains and the realists who fish them out.
    • kinds of secrets- those that are not worth keeping and those that are too good to keep.
    • kinds of statistics- the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
  25. When rain falls it does not fall on one man's roof.
  26. Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.
  27. There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.
  28. Live so that when your children think of fairnes and integrity, they think of you.
  29. Never put until tomorrow what you can manage to wriggle out today.
  30. The trouble with dawn is that it comes too early in the day.
  31. Give the fish what it wants to get it out of the river.
  32. Why give a chase to a lizard and leave the crocodile in the river.
  33. If you board the wrong train, there is no use in running along the corridor in the other direction (--- avoid making mistakes).
  34. You indulge; you bulge.
  35. Joy is not the absence of suffering but the presence of GOD.
  36. Friends can become lovers. Lovers, friends- never.
  37. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
  38. Time may close the book of grief but memories turn back every leaf.
  39. When logs are together they burn brightly.
  40. The problem with sin is that once you commit one sin you have to make more to cover up for the original sin and that one sin leads to a multi- million more sins. If only I could abscond from the first sin then I would be sinless.
  41. Roses are red,
    Violets are blue.
    The smell of the loo,
    Reminds me of you.
  42. Failure is not defeat unless you stop trying.
  43. It is when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.
  44. If you are bored by yourself, marry, and be bored by someone else.
  45. When all that is average becomes excellent, excellence becomes average.
  46. A woman's brain is divided into two parts; dollars and cents.
  47. Now we are not choking; Thanks for not smoking.
  48. Money is flat and meant to be piled up.
  49. In every person there is a yearning to love.
  50. Eat and drink together,
    Talk and laugh together,
    Enjoy life hugely together,
    But never call it friendship,
    Until you have wept together.
  51. The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.
  52. It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
  53. Wise men speak form experience and wiser men, from experience, don't speak.
  54. The man who appreciates light the most is he who has been through the darkest night.
  55. Wisdom does not necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
  56. When you are a child, the scary sounds come from under your bed. When you are an adult the scary sounds come from under the bonnet of your car.
  57. Power, like a devastating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
  58. If you can't be with the one you love, then love the one you are with.
  59. Only a fool tests the depth of water with both feet.
  60. Never throw stones at your mother,
    You'll be sorry my girl if you do,
    One of these days you'll be a mother yourself,
    And your children will throw them at you.
  61. Never fear shadows. They simply mean that there is a light shining somewhere.
  62. Every problem involves pain, and every solution involves courage.
  63. Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement (--- N. Mandela).
  64. There are three ways to get something done:
    1. do it yourself,
    2. employ someone, or
    3. forbid someone to do it.
  65. Among my most treasured possessions are the words that I have never spoken.
  66. The things we regret most are the things we did not do.
  67. It's very convinient to be poor. You have nothing to worry about.
  68. * May there always be a place in your life where a sunlit path awaits to be discovered, and wherever that path leads may happiness always follow.
  69. Love is not physical, love is spiritual.
  70. * The ugliest creature on earth lives in water.
  71. If you want an audience, start a fight.
  72. Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river.
  73. There is no happiness, there are only moments of happiness.
  74. * A worm in the cabbage is better than no meat at all.
  75. The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
  76. Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
  77. I would trade ten thousand tomorrows for just one single yesterday.
  78. The past cannot be changed, the future is still in your power.
  79. The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
  80. The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
  81. The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
  82. There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
  83. The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
  84. Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
  85. I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
  86. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
  87. The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
  88. Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.
  89. Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform ceremonies of reconciliation but there is no end (--- Paule Marshall).
  90. Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
  91. I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy... you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in (--- Katherine Mansfield).
  92. Life is like a circle, and someday if we travel in opposite directions on the circle we will meet again.
  93. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
  94. He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.
  95. Conversation is the art of telling people a little less than they want to know.
  96. To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
  97. They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own (--- Antonio Porchia).
  98. Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow (--- Denis Waitley).
  99. The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny (--- Albert Ellis).
  100. If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not sure I have the capacity for (--- Valvac Havel).
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