The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#quotes #richard-brinsley-sheridan #ignorance

I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous. ~Mel Brooks
#quotes #mel-brooks #chris-rock #entertainment

I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
#quotes #melody-carlson #writing #process

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations. ~Sue Kelly
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. ~Warren Christopher
#quotes #warren-christopher #law

Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
#quotes #richard-ford #poverty #floods #new-orleans

Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs

Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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Eating people is wrong. ~Michael Flanders
#quotes #michael-flanders #eating

When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
#proverbs #promise

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
#quotes #cole-porter #writing

There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections. ~David Ogilvy
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
#quotes #yayoi-kusama #georgia-o-keeffe #art #books

Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. ~Babyface
#quotes #babyface #ambition #music

I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
#quotes #robert-smith #achievement

I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home. ~Evelyn Glennie
#quotes #evelyn-glennie #travel #home

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
#proverbs #hindu-proverbs #self #competition

People are cooking less but obsessing about it more. ~Dougie Poynter
#quotes #dougie-poynter
#eating #cooking #obsession

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look; that healthy equals beautiful. ~Victoria Principal
#quotes #victoria-principal #feelings #health #beauty

The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs

The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
#quotes #richard-asher #haematology #medicine

It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
#quotes #ian-mcewan #education #intelligence

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
#proverbs #japanese-proverbs #conformity #change

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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