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 | Ready-Willing-Potent Libens-Volens-Potens 52 likes |
 | If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score? — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 48 likes |
 | Eternity is hinged upon this moment. Ex hoc momento pendet aeternitas. — Medieval Sundial Motto 31 likes |
 | People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election. — Otto von Bismarck, 1815-1898, German chancellor 21 likes |
 | You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 18 likes |
 | Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 17 likes |
 | Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 17 likes |
 | Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 16 likes |
 | The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 16 likes |
| Even in Arcadia was I. Et in Arcadia ego. — Tomb inscription in the painting of Nicolas Poussin “Shepherds of Arcadia” (Arcadia, in Peloponnese, symbolizes Utopia) 13 likes |
 | Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. — Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, American actress 12 likes |
 | A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 11 likes |
 | To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 11 likes |
 | Create a life you can’t wait to live. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 10 likes |
 | Am I not a man? And is a man not stupid? I'm a man, so I married. Wife, children, house, everything. The full catastrophe. — from the film Zorba the Greek (1964) 10 likes |
 | Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 10 likes |
 | Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. Δως μοι πα στω και ταν γαν κινάσω. — Archimedes, 287-212 BC, Ancient Greek mathematician & inventor 10 likes |
 | Religion is the opium of the people. — Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher 10 likes |
 | In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. — Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, British Prime Minister 10 likes |
 | Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer provide bad examples. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 9 likes |
 | The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 8 likes |
 | A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. — William G.T. Shedd, 1820-1894, American Presbyterian theologian 8 likes |
 | Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 8 likes |
 | Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 7 likes |
| A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 7 likes |
 | Conscience is a Jewish invention. — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator 7 likes |
 | Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 7 likes |
 | - I dunno, must be a king. - Why? - He hasn't got shit all over him. — from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 6 likes |
 | Love is a great beautifier. — Louisa May Alcott, 1923-1888, American writer 6 likes |
 | I will help you to approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 6 likes |
 | I like men who have a future and women who have a past. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 6 likes |
 | Man cannot discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore. — André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947 5 likes |
 | Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 5 likes |
 | You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty. — Sacha Guitry, 1885-1957, French writer 5 likes |
 | A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 5 likes |
| Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 4 likes |
 | The darkest hour is just before the dawn. — Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661, English thinker 4 likes |
 | Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 4 likes |
 | Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 3 likes |
| A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. — Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661, English thinker 3 likes |
 | For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 3 likes |
 | What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes |
 | Don't cry. The damned don't cry. — Eugene O’Neill, 1888-1953, American playwright, Nobel 1936 3 likes |
 | There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 2 likes |
 | One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater. |
 | We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents. |
 | The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. |
