One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. ~Oscar Wilde

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.  ~Oscar Wilde


Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.  ~Chinese Proverb
When you live in reaction, you give your power away.  Then you get to experience what you gave your power to.  ~N. Smith
When "Why not do it?" barely outweights "Why do it?" - don't do it.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in the horse as he is leaping.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept.  ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak.  Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.  ~Author Unknown
Promise only what you can deliver.  Then deliver more than you promise.  ~Author Unknown
All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain.  ~Epictetus