The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

 - George Bernard Shaw

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Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.  Their tastes may not be the same.

 - George Bernard Shaw

 

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
  - Immanuel Kant

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.                                                                      
  - Anonymous

It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.
  - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

- Karen Blixen

 

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

- Karen Blixen

 

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

- Nelson Mandela

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
  - Saki

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
  - Charles Wadsworth

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
  - JD Salinger

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
  - John Updike

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
  - Gore Vidal

 

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

 - George Bernard Shaw

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
  - Bertrand Russell

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
  - Tom Stoppard

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
  - Dorothy Parker

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
  - Oscar Wilde
 

Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
  - Ambrose Bierce

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
  - Charlotte Whitton

They always talk who never think.
  - Matthew Prior

You can't exercise your way out of an unhealthy diet and you can't diet your way out of an unhealthy lifestyle.
Fitness expert
 

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
  - Jean Paul Richter

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
  - Mark Twain

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
  - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
  - Bertrand Russell

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
- Mark Twain

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Stephen Leacock

Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
- Mark Twain

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
- Ambrose Bierce

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.
- Anonymous

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
- Ambrose Bierce

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
- Fred Allen

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
- Marquess of Halifax

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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
  - Bertrand Russell

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
- Ambrose Bierce

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
 

Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
 
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Aristotle

Even the most misfitting child/ Who’s chanced upon the library’s worth,/ Sits with the genius of the Earth/ And turns the key to the whole world
Ted Hughes
 
Capitalism is the astonishing belief that the nastiest motives of the nastiest men somehow or other work for the best results in the best of all possible worlds.
John Maynard Keynes
 
It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Shakespeare Macbeth
 
Ignorance more frequently breeds confidence than does knowledge.
Charles Darwin
 
Evolution is a series of successful mistakes.
Steve Jones