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Procrastination is the thief of time.
— Edward Young

For all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'
— John Greenleaf Whittier

Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
— President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.
— Edward Young

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
— Oscar Wilde

There is a homely adage which runs 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; You will go far.'
— President Theodore Roosevelt

Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
— Edward Young

Ah! Don't say that you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
— Oscar Wilde

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
— President Theodore Roosevelt

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
— W. B. Yeats

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir!
— Dr. Routh

But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
— Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon

He knows death to the bone - Man has created death.
— W. B. Yeats

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
— Jonathan Swift

The multitude is always in the wrong.
— Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon

Some people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
— President Woodrow Wilson

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be a sometimes a snob.
— William Makepeace Thackeray

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
— Oscar Wilde

We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.
— Thomas A Kempis

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
— Oscar Wilde

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
— Edward Thomas

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
— Oscar Wilde

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.
— Edward, First Baron Thurlow

When angry, count a hundred; when very angry, swear.
— Mark Twain

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
— Leo Tolstoy