"When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick."

Proverb on failure
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"Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!"

Gardner, Donald on procrastination   

"The wise does at once what the fool does at last."

Gracian, Baltasar on procrastination
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"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible."

Lonmer, George H. on procrastination   

"How soon not now, becomes never."

Luther, Martin on procrastination
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"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

Marquis, Don on procrastination
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"Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will--tomorrow!"

Pitzer, Gloria on procrastination
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"Manana is often the busiest day of the week."

Proverb, Spanish on procrastination
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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."

Tolkien, J. R. on procrastination
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"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

Twain, Mark on procrastination
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"When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating."

Cox, Marcelene on procrastination   

"If you wish for peace be ready for war."

Proverb on peace
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"Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite."

Proverb on hypocrisy
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"The hardest work of all is to do nothing."

Proverb on idleness
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"By doing nothing we learn to do ill."

Proverb on laziness   

"No one is as angry as the person who is wrong."

Proverb on anger
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"Luck is the idol of the idle."

Proverb on luck
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"The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise."

Cicero, Marcus T. on masses   

"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on masses
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"Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob."

Seneca on masses   

"Quackery has no friend like gullibility."

Proverb on medicine   

"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country."

Twain, Mark on nations
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"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist."

Twain, Mark on optimism
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"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."

Twain, Mark on prayer
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"If you have nothing to say, say nothing."

Twain, Mark on speakers and speaking
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"We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race."

Twain, Mark on success
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"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."

Twain, Mark on truth
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"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

Twain, Mark on truth   

"I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe."

Twain, Mark on truth
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"Never do wrong when people are looking."

Twain, Mark on wrong
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"Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance."

Twain, Mark on moderation
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"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."

Twain, Mark on majority
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"Golf is a good walk spoiled."

Twain, Mark on golf
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"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."

Twain, Mark on government
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"Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."

Twain, Mark on heaven
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"History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal."

Twain, Mark on history and historians
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"Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it."

Twain, Mark on honesty
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