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“When the well is dry we know the value of water”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Be nice to people on your way up because you will meet them on your way down.”
― Wilson Mizner

“The only man who never makes a mistake is the one one who never does anything”
― Teddy Roosevelt

“Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother in law to hear at your trial”
― Sydney Biddle Barrows , Uncensored Sales Strategies: A Radical New Approach to Selling Your Customers What They Really Want - No Matter What Business You're In

“The only man who never makes a mistake is the one one who never does anything.”
― Teddy Roosevelt

“Flattery is alright if you don't inhale.”
― Adlai Stevenson Samper, Pacho Galan: El Rey del Merecumbe

“Show me a good and gracious loser and I will show you a failure.”
― Knute Rockne, Coaching

“Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Well timed silence has more eloquence than speech.”
― Martin Farquhar Tupper, My Life as an Author

“We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-”
― Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy, jane austen, CHARLES DICKENS, Victor Hugo, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Absolute power corrupts absolutely”
― Lord Acton, Essays on Freedom and Power

“Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.”
― Steve Martin, Shopgirl

“...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.”
― Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty

“. . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me.”
― Steve Martin, Cruel Shoes

“When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“-Who knows about this?
-Just me, the police, the killer, and now you.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left.
And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what?”
― Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays

“I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx

“There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.”
― Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Rapidly, merrily,
Life's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily
Enjoy them as they fly!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley