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• William BlakeYou never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

  William Blake

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Than, Enough, More, Unless, Never, Know

• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  William Blake

  Topics in Enemy

  Tags in Than, Friend, Easier, Forgive, Forgiveness

• Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

  Franz Kafka

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right, Than
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  In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Than, Art Execute, Higher, Hand, Heart, Anything, Never, Imagine

• Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Nearer, Increase, Absurd, Our, Than, Provision, Road, End, More, Foolish, Old, Journey

• You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

  Bob Hope

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Than, Cake, Getting, More, Old, Know, Cost, Candle

• Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don’t lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won’t stand up either.

  Evan Esar

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Than, Statistician, Analysis, Figures, Definition, Admit, Stand, Won, Either, Up, Under, Them, Some, Man, Lie, Believe

• I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams… Man… is above all the plaything of his memory.

  André Breton

  Topics in Dream, Memory

  Tags in Amazed, Credence, Events, Lends, Observer, Occurring, Always, Than, His, Plaything, Waking, Above, Ordinary, More, Much, Been, Way, Those, Importance, Man, Attach

• Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

  William Wordsworth

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Than, Pictures, Wall, More, Often, Them, Decorate

• All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Topics in Art, Life

  Tags in Imitates, General, Than, Out, Point, More, Far, Principle, Desire

• There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

  Samuel Richardson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hardly, Husband, Any, Two, Than, Lover, Between, Greater, Same, Too, Often, Man, Men, Difference

• I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Business, Life

  Tags in Ay, Itself, Incessant, Than, Opposed, Think, Even, Poetry, More, Nothing, Philosophy, Crime

• A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Hidden, Child | Circumstance, Concerned, Cough, Helps, Homework, Kindly, Inner, Than, Grasp, His, Wall, World, Fact, Same, Too, More, Feeling, Never, Well, Some, Cooks

• My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

  Clara Schumann

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Than, Fairer, Imagination, Living, Continue

• We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

  Frank Howard Clark

  Topics in Age, Effort

  Tags in Put, Into, Than, Them, Enjoy, Helping, More, Folks, Old, Reach

• The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Than, Debates, Congress, Barometer, Arts, Our, World, Better, Happening, Even, Stock, Market

• The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.

  Angelus Silesius

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Than, Individual, Ahead, Good, Even, More, Still, Remains, Spark, Mankind

• I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

  Francis Bacon

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Than, Am, Always, Year, Never, Old, Older, Will, Man

• A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

  Samuel Richardson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Than, Better, Play, Often, Those, Judge

• I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

  Walt Disney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Entertain, Than, Entertained, Would, Learned, Hope, Rather, Educate, Went, Something