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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
Despair
[ A. Alvarez ]
977 votes.

I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.
Dreams
[ Tony Arata ]
977 votes.

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Modern and Modernism
[ Matthew Arnold ]
977 votes.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Age and Aging
[ Fred Astaire ]
977 votes.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
Character
[ Decimus Magnus Ausonius ]
977 votes.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Fame
[ Francis Bacon ]
977 votes.

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
Neighbors
[ Arthur Baer ]
977 votes.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Pleasure
[ Walter Bagehot ]
977 votes.

Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
Government
[ Joy Baluch ]
977 votes.

The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.
Negotiation
[ Orlando A. Battista ]
977 votes.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Fame
[ Vicki Baum ]
977 votes.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.
Virtue
[ William Shakespeare ]
977 votes.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
Freedom
[ Sir Edwin Arnold ]
976 votes.

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
Cooperation
[ Marvin J. Ashton ]
976 votes.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.
Wisdom
[ Rabbi Ben Azai ]
976 votes.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
Independence
[ David Ben-Gurion ]
976 votes.

A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker.
Funerals
[ Ambrose Bierce ]
976 votes.

Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Absurdity
[ Ambrose Bierce ]
976 votes.

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
Organization
[ Napoleon Bonaparte ]
976 votes.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Advice
[ Aeschylus ]
975 votes.

Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
Expectation
[ Aesop ]
975 votes.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Books - Reading
[ Amos Bronson Alcott ]
975 votes.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
Neighbors
[ Pietro Aretino ]
975 votes.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
Wisdom
[ Marcus Aurelius ]
975 votes.

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!
God
[ Yiddish Proverb ]
975 votes.

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