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On Work
Work spares us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. - Voltaire
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquillity and occupation, which give happiness. - Thomas Jefferson
Reward your workers when the sweat is still on their brows - Ross Perot
The difference between bosses and leaders, bosses boss, leaders lead - Roosevelt
If you want something done in a hurry, you had better take your time. - Chinese Proverb
The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it. - Josh Billings
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. - John Ruskin
I don't like work even when someone else does it. - Mark Twain
On Morals/Religion
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. -
Ecclesiastes 10:19
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that’s my religion. - Abe Lincoln
Chastity: The most unnatural of the sexual perversions - Aldous Huxley
Let no man presume to think that he can devise any plan of extensive good, unalloyed and unadulterated with evil. - Charles Caleb Colton
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. - Joseph Wood Krutch
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On Life in General
Most people are about as happy as they allow themselves to be. - Abe Lincoln
Good things come to those who wait, but only the things left behind by those who hustle - Abe Lincoln
Everyone is queer
....Save thee and me
....And sometimes I think
....Thee a bit queer too. - Amish Proverb
The communicating of a man’s self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half. - Francis Bacon
Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do on a rainy afternoon. - Susan Ertz
Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. - Stephen Swid
There’s many a pessimist who got that way by financing an optimist. - Anonymous
When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. Now it is my rule never to do so before breakfast. - Winston Churchill
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. - Winston Churchill
Life is half spent before one knows what it is. - French Proverb
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Life is growth and motion; a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. - Brooks Atkinson
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. - English Proverb
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes. - Oscar Wilde
Judge a man by his questions rather than is answers. - Voltaire
I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. - William Penn
The nail that stands out gets hammered down - Japanese Proverb
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. - Benjamin Franklin
If you think there is a solution, you're part of the problem. - George Carlin
You can observe a lot by just watching. - Yogi Berra
One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is. - Madame de Tencin
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell
When you buy a business, buy one that any idiot could run, because sooner or later one will - Peter Lynch
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