WISE MEN SAY . . . and WISE WOMEN TOO comes to an end today

The blog began in February 2006 and today's quote brings the total of posts to 2,750. I thought the following rather good as a final quotation.

Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself to others. It is because we are different that each one of us is special  - Brian Dyson

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J.B.PRIESTLEY 1894-1984

British novelist, playwright and broadcaster

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

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HARRIET BRAIKER d.2004

American clinical psychologist and author of self-help books

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection demoralizes you.

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SAMUEL JOHNSON 1709-84

English poet, essayist, literary critic, biographer and lexicographer

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.

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HORACE 65 BC - 8 BC

Quintus Horatius Flaccus, a leading Roman lyric poet

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

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MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY 1911-2004

American author of "Small and Simple Things."

The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh - crying gives me a headache!

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Chinese Proverb

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think.

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MADONNA b.1958

American singer-songwriter and actress

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always become a better version of yourself.

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ST.FRANCIS of Assisi 1181/2-1226

Giovanni di Pietro Bernardone was an Italian Catholic friar and teacher who, though never ordained to the priesthood, was one of the most revered religious figures in history

Remember, we learn nothing by speaking.

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ALAN PATON 1903-88

South African author and anti-apartheid activist

When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

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WILLIAM JAMES 1842-1910

American physician, philosopher and psychologist

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely - rearranging their prejudices.

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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT 1884-1962

American politician, wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

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ASHLEY COOPER

SEVEN DEADLY SINS

Truth, if it becomes a weapon against persons.

Beauty, if it becomes vanity.

Love, if it becomes possessive.

Loyalty, if it becomes blind, careless trust.

Tolerance, if it becomes indifference.

Self-confidence, if it becomes arrogance.

Faith, if it becomes self-righteous

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GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE 1880-1918

French poet,  playwright and novelist, one of the forefathers of surrealism

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

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GEORGE SAND 1804-76

George Sand was the pseudonym of Amantine-Lucille-Aurore Dupin, the French novelist whose name has always been associated with the composer Chopin.

Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

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ANON

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

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MARIE CURIE 1867-1934

Polish, naturalised French physicist and chemist

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

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BENJAMIN DISRAELI 1804-81

1st Earl of Beaconsfield, British politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

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BILL COSBY b.1937

American comedian, actor, author and TV producer

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

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JULIETTE RECAMIER 1777-1849

French society leader

No woman is all sweetness; even the rose has thorns.

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OSCAR WILDE 1854-1900

Irish writer and poet

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything and the young know everything.

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CHUCK NORRIS b.1940

American martial artist and actor

Men are like steel - when they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

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SAM EWING b.1949

American baseball player for the Chicago White Sox and the Toronto Bue Jays

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he is talking about.

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J.K. ROWLING b.1965

British novelist, creator of the Harry Potter series

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

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H.L. MENCKEN 1880-1956

American journalist, essayist and satirist

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.

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DESMOND TUTU b.1931

South African social rights activist, retired Anglican bishop

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

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CHARLES KINGSLEY 1819-75

British historian and novelist


We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

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MARIE CURIE 1867-1934

Polish-born, naturalised French physicist and chemist, the first woman to win a Nobel prize

Nothing in life is to be feared - it is only to be understood.

Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

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SAM SUNDQUIST

Some days you just have to create your own sunshine.

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SAMUEL JOHNSON 1709-84

English poet, essayist, literary critic and biographer

Courage is the greatest of all the virtues, because, if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

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ROBERT G. INGERSOLL 1833-99

American social activist and author

Happiness is the only good,

The place to be happy is here,

The time to be happy is now,

The way to be happy is to make others so.

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KATHARINE HEPBURN 1907-2003

American film, stage and TV actress

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.  

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TERRY PRATCHETT b.1948

British author of fantasy novels

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

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MAHATMA GANDHI 1869-1948

Pacifist leader of Indian independence movement and advocate of non-violence

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

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BETTY FRIEDAN 1921-2006

Author of The Feminine Mystique, the first President of the American National Organisation for Women

Ageing is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.


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WILLIAM FEATHER 1889-1981

American publisher and author

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

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ANON

Think big, believe big, act big, and the results will be big.

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 1564-1616

English poet, playwright and actor

Glory is like a circle in the water

Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself

Till by broad spreading it disperses to nought.

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YOKO ONO b.1933

Japanese artist and peace activist, wife of John Lennon

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence,

Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance,

Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence,

Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

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ARISTOTLE 384-322 BC

Greek philosopher, a member of Plato's Academy in Athens

If one way be better than another, that way you may be sure is nature's way.

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DORIS LESSING 1919-2013

British novelist, poet and playwright

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

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GROUCHO MARX 1890-1977

American comedian and film and TV star.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

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CARL JUNG 1875-1961

Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

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HORACE 65 BC - 8 BC

Roman lyric poet

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence; it's good to be silly at the right moment.

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W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM 1874-1965

British novelist and short story writer

People ask for criticism but they only want praise.

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MAE JEMISON b.1956

American physician and NASA astronaut

Never limit yourself because of others'  limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

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JOHN RUSKIN 1819-1900

British art critic and writer

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

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ANON

Live for today, live for tomorrow,

Think of your hopes and not of your sorrow.

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ANON

Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope.

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GEORGE MOORE 1852-1933

Irish short-story writer, novelist and poet

There is always a right way and a wrong way, and the wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

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JOHN BUCHAN 1875-1940

Scottish novelist and historian who became Baron Tweedsmuir, 15th Governor General of Canada

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 1792-1822

English Romantic poet

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

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ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH 1906-2001

American author and aviator

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

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THOMAS CARLYLE 1795-1881

Scottish philosopher, essayist and historian

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.

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H.L. MENCKEN 1880-1956

American journalist and essayist

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.

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ALEXANDER POPE 1688-1744

English poet, best remembered for his satirical verse

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

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LILY TOMLIN b.1939

American comedian, actress and writer

For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.

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LOY CHING-YUEN 1873-1960

Chinese Taoist master and poet

An inch of time is an inch of gold. 

Treasure it.

Appreciate its fleeting nature.

Misplaced gold is easily found.

Misspent time is lost forever.

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LUDWIG ERHARD 1897-1977

German politician, Chancellor of West Germany 1963-66

A compromise is the art of dividing up a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

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From ECCLESIASTES

Part of the Hebrew bible, the book of Ecclesiastes was written towards the end of the 3rd century B.C.

Trust also your own judgement, for it is your most reliable counsellor. A man's mind has sometimes a way of telling him more than seven watchmen posted on a high tower.

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Chinese Saying

If you want to be happy for  a short time, get drunk.

If you want to be happy for a long time, fall in love.

If you want to be happy for ever, take up gardening.

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ANTONIO MACHADO 1875-1939

Spanish poet, one of the leading figures in the Spanish literary movement "The Generation of '98"

Traveller, there is no path. Paths are made by walking.

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AUDREY HEPBURN 1929-93

British actress and humanitarian

The best thing to hold on to in life is each other.

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 1564-1616

English playwright, poet and actor

How poor are they that have not patience. 

- Othello  11.3

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PIET HEIN 1905-96

Danish scientist, inventor, mathematician, author and poet

He that lets the small things bind him

Leaves the great undone behind him.

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JOHN F. KENNEDY 1917-63

35th President of the USA

An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

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GOLDA MEIR 1898-1978

Teacher and politician who became the 4th Prime Minister of Israel

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

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BENJAMIN DISRAELI 1804-81

Earl of Beaconsfield, British politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

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SAI BABA 1838-1918

Indian spiritual master who had both Muslim and Hindu followers

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it.

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WILLIAM COWPER 1731-1800

British poet and evangelical Christian

Absence of occupation is not rest. 

A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

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MIGNON McLAUGHLIN 1913-83

American journalist and author

Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.

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KHALED HOSSEINI b.1965

Afghan-born American novelist who wrote "The Kite Runner"

Better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

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JOHANN WOLFGANG von GOETHE 1749-1832

German writer and polymath

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT 1884-1962

The longest-serving First Lady of the USA, wife of Franklyn D. Roosevelt

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

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RUTH RENKEL

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.

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ANON

The mind is like the stomach. It's not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

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KIN HUBBARD 1868-1930

American cartoonist, humorist and journalist

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

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SAMUEL BUTLER 1613-80

English poet and satirist

Loyalty is still the same

Whether it win or lose the game,

True as a dial to the sun

Although it be not shined upon.

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CHARLOTTE BRONTE 1816-55

British novelist and poet, eldest of the three Bronte sisters

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity; they must have action and, if they cannot find it, they will make it.

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