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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. - Nietzsche 1844 - 1900 - RW-20.4
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. - Moliere 1622 - 1673 - RW-20.3
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. - Alexander Pope 1688 - 1744 - RW-20.2
To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly. - William Samuel Johnson 1727 - 1819 - RW-20.1
Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent. - Voltaire 1694 - 1778 - RW-19.8
How much better it is to be envied than to be pitied. - Herodotus 484 BC - 424 BC - RW-19.7
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. - Ambrose Bierce 1842 - 1914 - RW-19.6
Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks. - David Garrick 1717 - 1779 - RW-19.5
Man is the inventor of stupidity. - Remy de Gourmont 1858 - 1915 - RW-19.4
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910 - RW-19.3
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism. - Plautus 255 BC - 185 BC - RW-19.2
The sweetest of all sounds is praise. - Xenophon 431 BC - 354 BC - RW-19.1
It is tact that is golden, not silence. - Samuel Butler 1835 - 1902 - RW-18.8
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. - Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900 - RW-18.7
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron 1788 - 1824 - RW-18.6
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. - Percy Shelley 1792 - 1822 - RW-18.5
Cleverness is not wisdom. - Euripides 480 BC – 406 BC - RW-18.4
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right. - Moliere 1622 - 1673 - RW-18.3
Never find fault with the absent. - Alexander Pope 1688 - 1744 - RW-18.2
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. - Josh Billings 1818 – 1885 - RW-18.1
He has the most who is most content with the least. - Diogenes 412 BC - 323 BC - RW-17.8
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910 - RW-17.7
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld 1613 - 1680 - RW-17.6
Who naught suspects is easily deceived. - Petrarch 1304 - 1374 - RW-17.5
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so. - Josh Billings 1818 – 1885 - RW-17.4
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing. - Izaak Walton 1593 - 1683 - RW-17.3
Imaginary evils are incurable. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 1830 - 1916 - RW-17.2
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. - Alexander Pope 1688 - 1744 - RW-17.1
To me, old age is always ten years older than I am. - John Burroughs 1837 - 1921 - RW-16.8
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible. - Charles Lamb 1775 - 1834 - RW-16.7
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865 - RW-16.6
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue. - Moliere 1622 - 1673 - RW-16.5