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“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”
Helen Keller
“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.”
Helen Keller
“Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.”
Maya Angelou
“I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.”
Ernest Hemingway
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
Jim Morrison
“People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.”
Mick Jagger
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
William James
“To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.”
William James
“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”
William James
“The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.”
William James
“Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.”
Kim Kardashian
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”
Clive Staples Lewis
“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
Clive Staples Lewis
“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”
Anais Nin
“We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.”
Barack Obama
“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.”
Henry Miller
“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.”
Henry Miller
“Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.”
James Madison
“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.”
Dolly Parton
“It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.”
Dolly Parton
