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| No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would. | Lonny Starr | |
| Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. | Lord Alfred Tennyson | 1809-1892, British Poet |
| Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more. | Lord Alfred Tennyson | 1809-1892, British Poet |
| No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years. | Lord Alfred Tennyson | 1809-1892, British Poet |
| Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
| This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
| Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world. | Lord Chesterfield | 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author |
| Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. | Lord Chesterfield | 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author |
| Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. | Lord Chesterfield | 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author |
| Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. | Lord Chesterfield | 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author |
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| Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. | Lord Chesterfield | 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author |
| Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. | Lord Chesterfield | 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author |
| I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs. But for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread -- stale and dry. | Loretta Lynn | 1935-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter |
| Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. | Lucille Ball | 1911-1989, American Actress, Producer |
| The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. | Lucretius | c.95-55 BC, Roman poet and philosopher |
| The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. | Lucretius | c.95-55 BC, Roman poet and philosopher |
| As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. | Lucy Maud Montgomery | 1874-1942, Canadian Novelist |
| Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. | Ludwig Wittgenstein | 1889-1951, Austrian Philosopher |
| The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure. | Lyndon B. Johnson | 1908-1973, Thirty-sixth President of the USA |
| Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad. | Lyndon B. Johnson | 1908-1973, Thirty-sixth President of the USA |
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| Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. | M. Scott Peck | American Psychiatrist, Author |
| Ability is a poor man's wealth. | M. Wren | |
| Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. | Mahatma Gandhi | 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader |
| Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. | Malcolm S. Forbes | 1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman |
| It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare. | Manutius | |
| If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. | Mao Zedong | 1893-1976, Founder of Chinese Communist State |
| Nobody's ever the greatest anything. | Maralyn Polak | |
| Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. | Marcus T. Cicero | c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician |
| Ability without honour is useless. | Marcus T. Cicero | c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician |
| I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. | Marcus T. Cicero | c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician |
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| The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. | Marcus T. Cicero | c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician |
| Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. | Marcus T. Cicero | c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician |
| I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it. | Margaret Thatcher | 1925-, British Stateswoman, Prime Minister (1979-90) |
| This lady is not for turning. | Margaret Thatcher | 1925-, British Stateswoman, Prime Minister (1979-90) |
| You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. | Margaret Thatcher | 1925-, British Stateswoman, Prime Minister (1979-90) |
| Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better. | Mario Lemieux | American Hockey Player |
| To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it. | Mark Caine | |
| A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. | Mark Rutherford | |
| What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows -- it must grow; nothing can prevent it. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
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| A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. | Marquis De Vauvenargues | 1715-1747, French Moralist |
| The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught. | Marquis De Vauvenargues | 1715-1747, French Moralist |
| Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. | Martin H. Fischer | |
| Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love. | Martin Luther King Jr. | 1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964 |
| Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone. | Martina Navratilova | 1956-, American Tennis Player |
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