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Advice

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela - A Long Walk to Freedom

Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
Jacob Braude

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Al Capp

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Colin Powell

Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Happiness/Sadness

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Rabbi H. Schachtel , The Real Enjoyment of Living

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.
George Santayana (1863-1952)

He who laughs last didn't get it.
Helen Giangregorio

He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
Bertolt Brecht

Inspiration/Motivation

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
David Brinkley

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
Andre Norton

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Friendship/Friends

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
Doug Larson

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones

Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say enough on that subject.
Anonymous

With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.
Anonymous

Freedom/Liberty

A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.
Pat Caddell

Democracy's the worst form of government except for all the others.
Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)

A political war is one in which everyone shoots from the lip.
Raymond Moley

I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.
Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1816-1841)

Love/Marriage

A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
Bruce Friedman

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
Mae West (1892-1980)

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Lana Turner

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