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"I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't." Lucille Ball 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste." Lucille Ball 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea." Honoré de Balzac 4.1429 average rating Rate this Quote
"This--this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice...a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape." Roger Bannister 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?" Natalie Clifford Barney 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home." Dave Barry 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me." Dave Barry 4.9412 average rating Rate this Quote
"Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know that you left open." John Barrymore 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." Jacques Martin Barzun 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." Saint Basil 4.4286 average rating Rate this Quote
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought." Baslo 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known." D. A. Battista 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization." L. Frank Baum 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person." Erastus Flavel Beadle 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow." Glen Beaman 3.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too." Luther Bear 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition." Alan Marshall Beck Rate this Quote
"Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket." Alan Marshall Beck 4.8947 average rating Rate this Quote
"A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.'" Alan Marshall Beck 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The knowledge of Christ's love for us should cause us to love Him in such a way that it is demonstrated in our attitude, conduct, and commitment to serve God. Spiritual maturity is marked by spiritual knowledge being put into action." Edward Bedore 4.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
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