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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Paul Richter

You’re not forty; you’re eighteen with twenty two years of experience.
Anonymous

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
Frank Sinatra

Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
Unknown

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
Pope Paul VI

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
George Harrison

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Maurice Chevalier

Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we’ve grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it’s not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing.
Jerry Seinfeld

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Audrey Hepburn

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn

Your heart just breaks, that’s all. But you can’t judge, or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.
Audrey Hepburn

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
Audrey Hepburn

I’m not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But, listed separately, I have a few good features.
Audrey Hepburn

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.
Audrey Hepburn

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
Audrey Hepburn

My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.
Audrey Hepburn

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Audrey Hepburn

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.
Audrey Hepburn

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.
Audrey Hepburn

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.
Audrey Hepburn

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Audrey Hepburn

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.
Audrey Hepburn

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‘Funny Face’ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
Audrey Hepburn

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
Audrey Hepburn

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”
Audrey Hepburn

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Audrey Hepburn

Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.
Audrey Hepburn

Paris is always a good idea.
Audrey Hepburn

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Audrey Hepburn

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.
Audrey Hepburn

Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.
Audrey Hepburn

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey Hepburn

I’m half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I’d be in a hell of a mess!
Audrey Hepburn

My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.
Audrey Hepburn

Aristotle was a famous Greek philosopher and writer. He was the student of Plato and the teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on topics that include: physics, metaphysics, poetry, theatre, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
Aristotle

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle

A friend to all is a friend to none.
Aristotle

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
Aristotle

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle

The most important things about which all men deliberate and deliberative orators harangue, are five in number, to wit: ways and means, war and peace, the defense of the country, imports and exports, legislation.
Aristotle

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Aristotle

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Aristotle

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Aristotle

Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
Aristotle

Well begun is half done.
Aristotle

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
Aristotle

We must as second best…take the least of the evils.
Aristotle

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.
Aristotle

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Aristotle

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange…Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
Aristotle

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Aristotle

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle

All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Aristotle

The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle

To perceive is to suffer.
Aristotle

We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.
Aristotle

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
Aristotle

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle

Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle

Most people would rather give than get affection.
Aristotle

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.
Isaiah Berlin

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
Native American Indian Proverb

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.
Robert Brault

My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that’s what she said.
Author Unknown

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum

Lots of people talk to animals…. Not very many listen, though…. That’s the problem.
Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
Tommy Smothers

I guess I’ve spent my life listening to what wasn’t being said.
Eli Khamarov, America Explained!

Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin

No one is listening until you fart.
Author Unknown

Women like silent men. They think they’re listening.
Marcel Achard

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities…. I listen to them and they go away delighted.
Andre Gide

I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.
Charles C. Finn

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway.
Author Unknown

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
Peter F. Drucker

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore Roosevelt

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore Roosevelt

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Theodore Roosevelt

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Theodore Roosevelt

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore Roosevelt

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
Theodore Roosevelt

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore Roosevelt

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Theodore Roosevelt

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Theodore Roosevelt

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Theodore Roosevelt

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Theodore Roosevelt

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore Roosevelt

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore Roosevelt

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt

I am a part of everything that I have read.
Theodore Roosevelt

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Theodore Roosevelt

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
Theodore Roosevelt

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Theodore Roosevelt

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
Theodore Roosevelt

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
Theodore Roosevelt

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Theodore Roosevelt

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt

In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Theodore Roosevelt

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Theodore Roosevelt

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
Theodore Roosevelt

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore Roosevelt

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Theodore Roosevelt

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
Theodore Roosevelt

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore Roosevelt

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore Roosevelt

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Theodore Roosevelt

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
Theodore Roosevelt

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
Theodore Roosevelt

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Theodore Roosevelt

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Theodore Roosevelt

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
Theodore Roosevelt

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Theodore Roosevelt

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Theodore Roosevelt

The American people abhor a vacuum.
Theodore Roosevelt

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Theodore Roosevelt

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Theodore Roosevelt

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
Theodore Roosevelt

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
Theodore Roosevelt

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Theodore Roosevelt

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
Theodore Roosevelt

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
Theodore Roosevelt

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Theodore Roosevelt

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
Theodore Roosevelt

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
Theodore Roosevelt

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
Theodore Roosevelt

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.
Theodore Roosevelt

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore Roosevelt

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Theodore Roosevelt

We can have no “50-50″ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Theodore Roosevelt

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer “Present” or “Not guilty.”
Theodore Roosevelt

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
Theodore Roosevelt

With self-discipline most anything is possible.
Theodore Roosevelt