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Friday, March 02, 2007

Witty remarks 22










*It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitaion. (Herman Melville)

*Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. (Helen Keller)

*Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. (T. S. Eliot)

*An American believes more than anything else in the last four letters of that title: I can. (anonymous)

*Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity. (Jackson Browne)

*Happiness lies in the joy of achivement and the thrill of creative effort. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

*The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for cuiosity. (Dorothy Parker)

*Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. (Thomas Fuller)

*I don't trust him. We're friends. (Bertolt Brecht)

*The great end of life is not knowledge but action. (Thomas Huxley)

*My father gave me these hints on speech-making: Be sincere... be brief... be seated. (James Roosevelt)

*If you rest, you rust. (Helen Hayes)

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