| "A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach." »Niccolo Machiavelli |
| "Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.Water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "We aim above the mark to hit the mark." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." »J. D. Salinger |
| "Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my friend." »Bruce Lee |
| "Senator, I started my life in a house without water or electricity. So I don't cede to you the high moral ground of not knowing what life is like in a ditch. to Senator Robert Byrd at a budget hearing" »Paul O'Neill |
| "The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downwards. Now by striking water and causing it to leap up, you may make it go." »Ni'matullah Wali |
| "You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together." »Buddha |
| "The best man is like water. Water is good it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in lowly places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao." »Lao Tzu |
| "The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal." »Lao Tzu |
| "High living and high thinking are poles apart." »B. J. Gupta |
| "High thoughts must have high language." »Aristophanes |
| "No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see." »Taoist Proverb |
| "The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water." »Danish proverb |
| "What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere." »Ovid |
| "Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed." »Buddha |
| "High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make." »Robert Francis Kennedy |
| "My friend I consider you my brother. I know we are not blood, and blood is thicker than water, but your body already has all the blood it needs. You will always need water." »Eric Pio |
| "Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe." »Dan Quayle |
| "Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality." »Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno |
| "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." »Aristotle |
| "The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect." »Robert Louis Stephenson |
| "After a person makes his mark in the world, a lot of people will come around with erasers." »Joe Moore |
| "There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts." »Mary Bertone |
| "Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man." »Norman Cousins |
| "No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever." »Francois Mauriac |
| "A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius |
| "I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, mark, Luke and John." »Fulton John Sheen |
| "A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know." »Mistinguett |
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