quotes about people copying you

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high. ~Mary H. Waldrip



I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. ~Gilda Radner



I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. ~Karl Friedrich Gauss



Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin



The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe. ~Louis Pasteur



Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow



Recklessness is a species of crime and should be so regarded on our streets and highways. ~Marlen E. Pew



A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ~Henry Ford



A pun is a short quip followed by a long groan. ~Author Unknown



It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ~Earl Warren



I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. ~Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, 1907



There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William P. Merrill



It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. ~Mark Twain



Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. ~St Francis de Sales



Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish. ~William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954



No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. ~Terry Josephson



I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light. ~Mary Gardiner Brainard



No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung. ~Tagore



If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. ~Alan Simpson