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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope

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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I am trying to own my own opinions
and offer what I know as an option,
just as I would present a tray of appetizers for my guests.
Here are several choices that I have created -
if one looks good you are welcome to take it.
In other words, I am training myself to say,
"May I tell you how it is for me?"
When I ask the question, it means waiting
for the invitation to share.
It also means being prepared for my friend to say,
"No." They don't want to know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner

Whenever I date a guy, I think,
"Is this the man I want my children
to spend their weekends with?"
- Rita Rudner

I'm not talking about lust.
A woman in lust wants chocolate.
A woman in love wants diamonds.
- the movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
- William J. Clinton

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Some'll rob you with a six gun,
Some with a fountain pen.
- Woody Guthrie

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln

Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu

Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln

Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson

Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb

It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay

To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling

About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie