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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. ~T.S. Eliot



The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ~Theodore Roosevelt



Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. ~Jack Nicklaus, on why he tees his ball high.



It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office. ~Shirley MacLaine



Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money. ~Ernst Levy



If you do not agree with the prevalent point of view, be ready to explain why. ~Martin H. Fischer



I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. ~Marlene Dietrich



So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three. ~Alexandre Dumas, fils



The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ~Omar Bradley



How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward. ~Spanish Proverb



People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please. ~Will Rogers



What I take from my nights, I add to my days. ~Leon de Rotrou, "Vencelas," translated



Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ~Honore de Balzac



Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. ~Elbert Hubbard



For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind. ~Loring A. Schuler



We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving. ~-Steven Wright



Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ~C.S. Lewis



The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American. ~Thomas Jefferson



By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. ~Socrates