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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

William Congreve

Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.

Isaac D'Israeli

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. •George S. Patton Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. •Benjamin Disraeli Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. •William Feather All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. •Mark Twain The reward of a thing well done is having done it. •Ralph Waldo Emerson It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. •Joseph Ross Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. •Dave Gardner If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. •Anonymous The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. •Elbert Hubbard Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. •James W. Pence The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi or •Donald Kendall The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. •Nelson Boswell The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. •Jean Giraudoux I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. •Bill Cosby Why be a man when you can be a success? •Bertold Brecht For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. •Richard Feynman Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

George S. Patton

Nothing fails like success. •Gerald Nachman We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? •Jean Cocteau Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. •Lily Tomlin The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. •Nancy Astor For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. •Rita Mae Brown Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. •Mark Twain The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already. •J.N. Fadenburg Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly. •Cecil B. Demille I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. •Abraham Lincoln The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. •Groucho Marx Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

Gerald Nachman

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Irving Berlin

If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

Bravest at the last, She levelled at our purposes, and being royal, Took her own way.

William Shakespeare

Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.

Ambrose Bierce

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

F. J. Raymond

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

F. J. Raymond

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

C. S. Lewis

The idea of masculinity has now been commercialized. Femininity had been commercialized a while ago. But men, in general, have lost what the meaning of what being a man is all about.

Epperson's Unknown

The internal qualities once said to embody manhood- sure footedness, inner strength, confidence of purpose- are merchandised to men to enhance their manliness. What passes for masculinity is being extracted and sold back to men. Literally in the case of Viagra.

Susan Faludi

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

Manfred Eigen

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility - it may be right but irrelevant.

Manfred Eigen

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Thomas Paine

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Henri Louis Bergson

, The Hidden Power of the Heart Each moment is a doorway to time travel. Being in this very moment and no other, time as we know it stops. You can Freeze-Frame and stop. Then you can make another choice. You can stay in the same holographic pattern or you can choose a different one. -Sara Paddison.

Sara Paddison

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. -Mignon McLaughlin.

Mignon Mclaughlin

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

William Faulkner

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

Denis Waitley

To-morrow never yet On any human being rose or set.

William Marsden

The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.

William Shakespeare

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

Henry Ward Beecher

When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.

Gayl Jones

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