Chilon Quotes

#1. Some people say I'm really ugly and anorexic; some say the only reason I'm on TV is because I'm pretty. I say to them: Get your slander straight. You are what you are, whether you're small or skinny or smart or dumb. Just do what you do.

Ann Coulter

#2. Just because it's automatic doesn't mean it works.

Daniel J. Bernstein

#3. Learn how to regulate one's own house well.

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#4. The majority of our polities, as Aristotle says, are like the Cyclops, abandoning the guidance of the women and children to each individual man according to his mad and injudicious ideas: hardly any, except the polities of Sparta and of Crete, have entrusted the education of children to their laws.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. Do not make too much haste on one's road.

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#6. A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

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#7. If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

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#8. The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

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#9. My life should not be owned by others ,I should take a lead of it

Abhishek

#10. I'm always inspired by people who have really cool Twitter profiles.

Charlie Puth

#11. Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

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#12. Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#13. When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.

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#14. You still know that boy. He was very angry at fourteen, fifteen, in summer and winter, at home or in the world. So angry that his face contorted in photos. The camera was a question and his face did not know the answer.

Dave Eggers

#15. Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

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#16. We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

Shannon Hoon

#17. There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.

Mark Messier

#18. As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

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#19. I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

Robert Caro

#20. Do nothing immoderate.

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#21. Bankruptcy is like losing your virginity. It doesn't hurt the next time.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#22. Religion is for followers ... Followers and puppets.

Ellen Hopkins

#23. What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

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#24. You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

Chuck Palahniuk

#25. Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

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#26. If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

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