Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

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William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was a Cherokee-American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorist. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory, now part of Oklahoma, and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son". As an entertainer and humorist, he...

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I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

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There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.

—William Langland

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

—Craig Thompson in Blankets

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It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.

—Alice Walker

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Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field. It's a scent to them, a smell.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

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