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tiny.ag/hudckmys · submitted 1997
If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.
tiny.ag/dnj7czjw · submitted 1998
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
tiny.ag/wtukmszr · submitted 1997
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
tiny.ag/gvfo9jw1 · submitted 1997
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
tiny.ag/hfx4m7bz · submitted 1998 by David Shorr
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination
Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon, XCIV, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/t6xaogci · submitted 1997
The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
tiny.ag/d3ttj2ag · submitted 1997
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
tiny.ag/qycsaode · submitted 1997
When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred.
Thomas Jefferson, Writings, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/mydapq7x · submitted 1999 by Megan
To accomplish great things, you must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe.
tiny.ag/oxoy2gsu · submitted 1997
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
tiny.ag/eoc1jiyu · submitted 1997
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
tiny.ag/lctsfa7d · submitted 1997
Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.
Edouard Herriot, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/jgjax6rp · submitted 1999
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
tiny.ag/oqpuijzx · submitted 1997
Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.
tiny.ag/nzeorxiy · submitted 1997
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
tiny.ag/e87wmjqg · submitted 1997
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
tiny.ag/frswba1z · submitted 1997
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
tiny.ag/ct4xj6gg · submitted 1997
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
tiny.ag/mb7skahf · submitted 1997
It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.
tiny.ag/4xolnjrp · submitted 1997
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure