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Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

 

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous

 

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings

 

When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

 

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion

 

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

 

The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill

 

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar

 

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne

 

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein

 

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields

 

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim

 

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy

 

Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons

 

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide

 

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt

 

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein

 

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard

 

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
-- William James

 

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec

 

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Marston

 

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken

 

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov

 

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7

 

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins

 

We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz

 

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw

 

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz

 

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher

 

A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde

 

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson

 

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery