Quotes by Unknown, Source

"Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth."

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"How much money is enough?"

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"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."

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"Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health."

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"Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty."

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"A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. What do you mean? responded her mother. Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another."

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"I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance; a church filled with flowers and friends. I asked him what kind of wedding he wished for; he said one that would make me his wife."

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"It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man."

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"One non-revolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of permanent revolution."

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"The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it."

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"Don't gag people with welfare, they'll never make an effort."

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"Remember that the horse that finishes a neck ahead wins the race."

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"The only way to be number one is to be number one."

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"A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits"

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"A winner loses more often than losers."

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"Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost. Every good deed that's nobly done will always repay the cost."

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"Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied."

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"If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price."

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"Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it."

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"The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom."

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"The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it."

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"What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people."

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"Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube."

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"Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be."

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"Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance."

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"You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God."

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"Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom."

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"If wishes were horses then beggars would ride."

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"Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be."

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"Wit is more often a shield than a lance."

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"A perfect wife is one who helps her husband with the dishes."

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"Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do... but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did."

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"I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar."

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"The mouth of a cannon is safer that the mouth of a woman scorned."

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"Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant."

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"Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow -- or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends."

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"The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold."

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"When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock"

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"The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word."

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"When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words."

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