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Category: maxims

Posted on January 22, 2022January 21, 2022

“Miss not the discourse of the elders.”—Apocrypha

Posted on January 11, 2022January 11, 2022

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”—Winston Churchill, UK Prime Minister, 1874-1965

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

Posted on November 4, 2021November 3, 2021

“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”—Cyril Northcote Parkinson, British author of “Parkinson’s Law,” 1909 to 1993

Posted on November 3, 2021November 3, 2021

“Always depend on people to think the worst.”—Publius Ovid, Roman poet, 43 BC to 18 AD

Posted on November 1, 2021November 1, 2021

“Don’t wish ill for your enemy; plan it.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

Posted on September 20, 2021

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”—Aesop, Greek fabulist, 620-564 BC

Posted on September 16, 2021September 15, 2021

“We can learn even from our enemies.”—Publius Ovid, Roman poet, 43 BC to 18 AD

Posted on September 11, 2021

“Those who can sin in secret do so more quickly.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

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