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Great One-line Quotes

I love the little nuggets of truth in the "one-liner" quotes from famous people -- or maybe not so famous.

Here are a couple:

"Success is a matter of luck. Ask any failure." Mark Peterson

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Edison

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself." George Bernard Shaw



What are some of your favorites?

Roz

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Some of my favourites

"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults."
Antisthenes (445 BC - 365 BC)

"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944), "The Little Prince", 1943.

"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."
Bill Cosby (1937 - )

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Those are great, LDS

Here's another that's... hmm... true? or not?

"Of these blessings placed before you, make your choice and be content." Samuel Johnson


"All suffering is not punishment." Marvin J. Ashton

Roz

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You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

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"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people."
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."
Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966), Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)

"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."
Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)

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"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first." -- Mark Twain

"Procrastination is the fear of success." -- Denis Waitley

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Someday your life is going to pass before your eyes. You might as well make it worth watching.

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You don't love a woman because she is beautiful; she is beautiful because you love her

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Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours

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If you haven't found something you'd die for, then you haven't got the right to live.

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"People who mind don't matter & people who matter don't mind."