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Category: aphorisms

Posted on January 15, 2023January 15, 2023

“Good begets good.”—Irish proverb

Posted on August 10, 2022August 10, 2022

“If fortune wants to do you in, she makes you stupid.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim-writer, 85 BC — 43 BC

Posted on April 10, 2022

“Fortune is glass. Just when it gleams brightest it shatters.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

Posted on March 23, 2022March 23, 2022

“Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.”—Maggie Kuhn, Gray Panthers founder, 1905-1995

Posted on February 27, 2022February 27, 2022

“It ain’t over till it’s over.”—Lawrence Peter (“Yogi”) Berra, American baseball catcher, 1925-2015

Posted on February 24, 2022February 23, 2022

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”—Oscar Wilde, Irish poet & playwright, 1854-1900

Posted on January 31, 2022

“These success encourages: they can because they think they can.”—Virgil, Roman poet, 70-19 BC

Posted on January 31, 2022January 30, 2022

“Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.”—Antisthenes, Greek philosopher, 445-365 BC

Posted on November 27, 2021

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”—Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, Irish novelist, 1855-1897

Posted on November 24, 2021November 24, 2021

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.”—Henry James, American author, 1843-1916

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