“Always behave like a duck: Keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.”
Author Jacob Braude, quoted in Forbes.com
“Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”
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Author Françoise Sagan, quoted in The Wall Street Journal
“Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.”
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, quoted in the Associated Press
“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
Jazz legend Lionel Hampton, quoted in The Buffalo News
“Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.”
Mark Twain, quoted in BBCNews.com
“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but many of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.”
Andy Rooney, quoted in the Flushing, Mich., Observer
“Simple’s the most sophisticated thing of all.”
Cookbook author Ina Garten, quoted in More
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