Quotations - Aphorisms

Quotations - Aphorisms

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FAme usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Hunger is not debatable. Harry Hopki
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt.
(The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them...
Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio. (When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.
) Horace, from Ars Poetica...
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. Edgar Watson Howe
Deep experience is never peaceful. Henry Jame
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William Jame...
Luxury is more deadly than any foe. Juvenal
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Immanuel Ka...
A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it. John Kea

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