"Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit."

Shay, R. E. on Luck
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"Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold."

Proverb, Yiddish on Luck
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"Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it."

Proverb, German on Luck
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"Luck is the idol of the idle."

Proverb on Luck
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"I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me"

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Luck
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"I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself -- it's eerie."

Turlington, Christy on Curiosity
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"One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool."

Proverb, Chinese on Humor
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"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names."

Proverb, Chinese on Names
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"Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still."

Proverb, Chinese on Progress
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"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead."

Proverb, Chinese on Critics and Criticism
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"If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him, don't suspect him."

Proverb, Chinese on Hiring
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"Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head."

Proverb, Chinese on Family
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"Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald."

Proverb, Chinese on Experience
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"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."

Manson, Charles on Insanity
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"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."

Proverb, Chinese on Adversity
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"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."

Berra, Yogi on Death and Dying
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"I made a wrong mistake"

Berra, Yogi on Mistakes
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"In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter."

Proverb, Chinese on Promises
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"Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down."

Proverb, Chinese on Simplicity
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"Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best."

Proverb, Chinese on Caution
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"I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise."

Montesquieu, Charles De on Simplicity
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"The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life."

Macy, John on Simplicity
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"Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood --for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories."

Greene, Graham on Simplicity
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"Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun."

Wilson, Flip on Humor
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"By blood a king, in heart a clown."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Humor
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"Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is."

Martin, Steve on Humor
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"Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room."

Diller, Phyllis on Humor
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"Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

Bacon, Francis on Humor
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"You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair."

Proverb, Chinese on Control
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"If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow."

Proverb, Chinese on Character
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"You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes."

Shaw, George Bernard on Power
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"Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on Mother-in-Laws
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"My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Patriotism
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"God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers"

Proverb, Jewish on Mothers
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"A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl."

Hemingway, Ernest on Writers and Writing
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"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""

Kerouac, Jack on Passion
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"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."

Richter, Jean Paul on Birthdays
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"So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Ambition
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"Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane."

Unknown, Source on Insanity
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"Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."

Churchill, Winston on Writers and Writing
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