- Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
- Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest. ~ Shakespeare
- The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
- In any great undertaking; it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.
- It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
- Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
- It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. - Winston Churchill
- Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. - Czech Proverb.
- Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. - Einstein, Albert
- The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
- Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
- How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward - Spanish Proverb~
- "To fully understand another, you must walk a mile in their moccasins. To walk a mile in their moccasins, you must first remove your own."
- Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
- The friendship that can cease has never been real.
- We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
- The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
- The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies. - Thomas Jefferson
- Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
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