Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Miscellaneous.

The repository contains 143 quotes in the category “Miscellaneous.”
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The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been, the foresight to know where you’re going, and insight to know when you’re going too far.

Irish Proverb

If you are not living on the edge, then you are taking up too much room.

Unknown

If you think the world turned its back on you, take a look around. You probably turned your back on the world.

Unknown

You’re born with two strikes against you, so don’t take a third one on your own.

Connie Mack
1862 — 1956

A secret known to three people can be kept as long as two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare
1564 — 1616

For every difficult problem there’s a solution that’s simple, neat and wrong.

H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956

It’s hard to make a comeback when you haven’t been anywhere.

Unknown

Gifts much expected are paid, not given.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

The noblest question in the world is, “What good may I do in it?”

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

The books that the world calls immoral books are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

To get back one’s youth, one merely has to repeat one’s follies.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue.

Unknown

Good news is just life’s way of keeping you off balance.

Unknown

Kangaroo: nature’s initial effort to produce a cheerleader.

Unknown

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau
1817 — 1862

As for the future, your task is not to forsee it, but to enable it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1900 — 1944

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