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Anne Hutchinson
One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
Mel Brooks
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Charles Kettering
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
Terry Pratchett
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Charles M. Schulz
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Marilyn vos Savant
Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
Lewis Black
There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice.
William Blake
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Aeschylus
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Eleanor Roosevelt
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Swami Vivekananda
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Logan Pearsall Smith
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Francis Bacon
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
William Arthur Ward
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
Robert H. Schuller
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Albert Einstein
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Jim Carrey
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
Jane Wagner
All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
E. B. White
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
Benjamin Franklin
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
George Bernard Shaw
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.