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"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names."

Proverb, Chinese on names
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"One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool."

Proverb, Chinese on humor
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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
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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    Share

"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    Share

"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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"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead."

Proverb, Chinese on criticism
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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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"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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"My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on patriotism
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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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"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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"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on miracles    Share

"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."

Hugo, Victor on adversity
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fights and fighting
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored."

Byron, Lord on society
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"To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!"

Diderot, Denis on asceticism
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"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster."

Baldwin, James on innocence
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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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"There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it."

Harington, Donald on life    Share

"With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich."

Proverb, Chinese on virtue
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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

Dickinson, Emily on death
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"The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever."

Caen, Herb on immortality
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"Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."

Richter, Jean Paul on death
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