"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast."
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"Cheap booze is a false economy."
"I'm not young enough to know everything."
"At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become."
"Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds."
"...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves."
"Entrepreneurs adopt the ways of the adept and adapt to a changing environment. Actually, entrepreneurs are more enterpreneurs, because they are forever entering into new territory."
"I love letting her know how much she means to me. A love in secret is but a shadow that’s cold and lonely."
"Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better."
"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot."
"The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline."
"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses."
"It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing."
"Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."
"Bitter your acts, bitter am I,Kindness your deeds, kindness am I,Pleasant and gentle, so you are,Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker."
"Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid."
"Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true"
"A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise."
"Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway."
"errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical."