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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind
WILLIAM R. ALGER Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
WILLIAM R. ALGER Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, ...
GENA SHOWALTER They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.
GENA SHOWALTER What I kept pressing upon them is one of the greatest gems there is — a diamond. A diamond, whethe...
JOHN CHANEY Always keep a diamond in your mind.
TOM WAITS The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin.
WALLIS SIMPSON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All...
KATE MIDDLETON There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
MARIE ANTOINETTE I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
KING JAMES I I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
KATE MIDDLETON It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;...
MARIE ANTOINETTE We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
PRINCESS DIANA What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
PRINCESS DIANA The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult period...
PRINCESS DIANA People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is bett...
PRINCESS DIANA I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just wa...
PRINCESS DIANA There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
PRINCESS DIANA I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feel...
PRINCESS DIANA Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves...
PRINCESS DIANA The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
PRINCESS DIANA When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
PRINCESS DIANA I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and ...
PRINCESS DIANA If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
PRINCESS DIANA

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WILLIAM R. ALGER False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
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WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE ALGER As two floating planks meet and part on the sea, O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.
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WILLIAM MASTERS The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
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WILLIAM MORRIS I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
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WILLIAM MORRIS If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY God himself took this human flesh upon him.
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WILLIAM BARCLAY If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
WILLIAM BARCLAY The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
WILLIAM BARCLAY Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
WILLIAM BARCLAY For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like...
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WILLIAM BARCLAY In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
WILLIAM BARCLAY We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
WILLIAM OSLER Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort...
WILLIAM PENN The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
WILLIAM GODWIN And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
WILLIAM GODWIN Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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WILLIAM MORRIS The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
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WILLIAM PENN Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pe...
WILLIAM CONGREVE If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my facu...
WILLIAM CONGREVE She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at t...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
WILLIAM CONGREVE I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
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WILLIAM CONGREVE There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
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WILLIAM CONGREVE If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Faith is a passionate intuition.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its ro...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To begin, begin.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
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WILLIAM FINNEGAN Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent.
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WILLIAM GOLDING The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The course of true love never did run smooth.
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