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People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes—pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.

Helen Gurley Brown

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

A. Whitney Brown

Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.

Tom Brown

Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

Gene Brown

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

James Brown

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

Les Brown

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

A. Whitney Brown

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Thomas Edward Brown

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Rita Mae Brown

Intuition is a suspension o f logic due to impatience.

Rita Mae Brown

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Jerry Brown

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Les Brown

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

Les Brown

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Rita Mae Brown

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Sam Brown

For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?

Claude Brown

Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going.

Rita Mae Brown

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown

A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

A Whitney Brown

To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.

Tom Brown

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Rita Mae Brown

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.

Rita Mae Brown

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Jerry Brown

I've outdone anyone you can name—Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

James Brown

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

Sarah Brown

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