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-- Sir Edmund Hillary

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He who never walks except where he sees other men's tracks will make no discoveries.



Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.



Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.



Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.



It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.



My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

Friendship Quotes


So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell.



Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.



Inflation is when sitting on your nest egg doesn't give you anything to crow about.



The temperate person's pleasures are durable because they are regular; and all their life is calm and serene, because it is innocent.



How strange to have failed as a social creature -- even criminals do not fail that way -- they are the law's ''Loyal Opposition,'' so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.



Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane.



What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.



An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.



People who live in glass houses should take out insurance.