Quotes and thoughts

Great writing can't be taught, but atrocious writing is entirely preventable.
Dennis A. Mahoney

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Anonymous

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
Bill Clinton

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

A man paints with his brain and not with his hands.
Michelangelo

If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
Margaret Thatcher

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
Thomas Jefferson

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