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Here are some of my favorite Quotes and Proverbs:

  1. Everyone is wise when the mischief is done. (Spanish Proverb)

  2. Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind. (Zen Proverb)

  3. The difference between a boss and a leader: a Boss says, ‘Go!’ -a Leader says, ‘Let’s go!’. (E. M. Kelly)

  4. Subtlety set a trap and caught itself. (Latin Proverb)

  5. The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. (Clarence Darrow)

  6. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. (Francis Bacon)

  7. Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. (Lewis Mumford)

  8. Wisdom is a good purchase, though we pay dear for it. (Dutch Proverb)

  9. Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. (Marian Anderson)

  10. The wolf loses his teeth, but not his inclination. (Portuguese, Spanish Proverb)

  11. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. (Albert Einstein)

  12. Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do. (John C. Maxwell)

  13. Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

  14. The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. (Jessamyn West)

  15. In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. (John James Ingalls)

  16. A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. (James Feibleman)

  17. He understands badly who listens badly. (Welsh Proverb)

  18. In time of sickness man is ever on his best behaviour. (Latin Proverb)

  19. Many are esteemed, only because they are not known. (French Proverb)

  20. Rain wets a leopard’s skin, but it does not wash out the spots. (Ghanaian Proverb)

  21. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. (Proverb)

  22. It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also. (Tao Saying)

  23. Better be the head of a cat than the tail of a lion. (Italian Proverb)

  24. False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. (Socrates)

  25. The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. (Jane Wagner)

  26. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. (Benjamin Disraeli)

  27. A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. (Chinese Proverb)

  28. You’re only lonely if you don’t like the person you are alone with. (Wayne Dyer)

  29. A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune. (Jean De La Bruyere)

  30. I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. (Winston Churchill)

  31. A fool’s heart dances on his lips. (French Proverb)

  32. Beautiful things are secured with most difficulty. (Latin Proverb)

  33. A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. (Don Marquis)

  34. Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. (John W. Gardner)

  35. The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. (William Ralph Inge)

  36. Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence. (Vermont Proverb)

  37. Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the “courage of their convictions.”. (Coventry Patmore)

  38. I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. (Kahlil Gibran)

  39. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. (Aristotle)

  40. A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide nothing can be done. (Fred Allen)

  41. Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. (African Proverb)

  42. Men will spend their health getting wealth. Then, gladly pay all they have earned to get health back. (Mike Murdock)

  43. Have confidence, but beware in whom. (Latin Proverb)

  44. Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads. (Erica Jong)

  45. A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. (Louis Nizer)

  46. The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance. (Brian Hwang)

  47. The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is just a statistic. (Joseph Stalin)

  48. Every road has two directions. (Russian Proverb)

  49. Borders of a country will be decided by human and will be changed by human. This fact that a nation could possess a large territory for their own is not a deciding fact for accepting that country as an eternal and definite nation. The maximum thing they can do is to prove the power of their powerhouses and the weakness of other nations. And hence the right only lies in the hands of power. (Adolf Hitler)

  50. Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not. (Protagoras) [50 Star Quote!!!]