Quotations from Everywhere

(Part Twenty-one)

A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Brave men are all vertebrates: they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Try and trust will move mountains.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Cats and monkeys, monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Who goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, serenely, divinely aware.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

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