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  The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess.
 ~wise sayings by famous people by Chris Cobbs

  Some people hold themselves back because they’re too timid or proud to ask. Asking never kills. Asking makes you appear stupid a few seconds; wiser for life.
 ~inspirational sayings about Self Discipline quotes by

  Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
 ~wise people quotes by Aesop

  Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom
 ~famous quotes about Adversity by Coventry Patmore

  I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.
 ~wise people sayings by Glenda Jackson

  Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
 ~wise sayings by famous people by Tom Stoppard

  I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
 ~inspirational sayings about Quotations quotes by Marlene Dietrich

  We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
 ~wise people quotes by William James

  While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.
 ~famous quotes about Wise Words by Doug Horton

  Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices.
 ~wise people sayings by Terri Guillemets

  Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
 ~wise sayings by famous people by Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.
 ~inspirational sayings about Grief quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
 ~wise people quotes by Neil Gaiman, Books of Magic III

  Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
 ~famous quotes about Living by Buddha

  Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
 ~wise people sayings by Seneca the Younger

   The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise.
 ~wise sayings by famous people by African Proverb

   It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.
 ~good sayings about Luck by Frank A. Clark

   The better part of one's life consists of his friendships
 ~wise people quotes by Abraham Lincoln

   Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
 ~motivational quotes about Success sayings by Dale Carnegie

   I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
 ~wise people sayings by Henry James

   Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.
 ~wise sayings by famous people by Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

   Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion
 ~good sayings about Valentine's Day by Author Unknown

   The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.
 ~wise people quotes by Author Unknown

   I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
 ~motivational quotes about Environment sayings by Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985

   All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
 ~wise people sayings by George Eliot

   She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
 ~wise sayings by famous people by Evelyn Waugh

   I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
 ~good sayings about Memory by Diane Sawyer

   Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
 ~wise people quotes by James Russell Lowell

   It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
 ~motivational quotes about Love sayings by John Bulwer

   I got a postcard from my gynecologistIt said, "Did you know it's time for your annual check-up?" No, but now my mailman does
 ~wise people sayings by Cathy Ladman

   Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
 ~wise sayings by famous people by Stuart Chase

   The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to itYou and you alone make me feel that I am aliveOther men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough
 ~good sayings about Valentine's Day by George Moore

   Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
 ~wise people quotes by Winnie the Pooh

   Golf is the cruelest of sports. Like life, it's unfair. It's a harlot. A trollop. It leads you on. It never lives up to its promises.... It's a boulevard of broken dreams. It plays with men. And runs off with the butcher.
 ~motivational quotes about Golf sayings by Jim Murray

   God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
 ~wise people sayings by Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien

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