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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 150
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Roger Moore
I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.
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Horace
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
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Peter James, Ghosts of the Queen Mary
The true skeptic will never believe you no matter how much proof you offer him. The true believer does not need it.
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Laertius Diogenes
'Bury me on my face,' said Diogenes and when he was asked why, he replied, 'Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.'
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Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
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Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene"
We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.
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Dale Carnegie
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
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Mark Twain
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
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William Blake
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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Aristophanes, 450-385 BC, Birds, 414 BC
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Horace
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.
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Eugene Benge
Getters don't get--givers get.
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