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Vintage Quotation Cards: A through M

Cards featuring vintage illustrations, old-fashioned typefaces and timeless quotes from men and women in the arts and sciences. Cards measure 5 by 7 inches (A-7) and are printed on recycled paper. With matching envelopes. Made in USA. Box of 10 cards retails for $10.90. Also available to resellers as counter cards.  Back to Resellers Page

4041
A Compliment: Plautus


FRONT: I much prefer a compliment, insincere or not, to sincere criticism. - Plautus

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4070
About Those Ghosts: Truman

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Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day. Bess Truman

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4050
Advice: St. Vincent Millay


FRONT: Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. -Edna St. Vincent Millay

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4065
Age Is Not Measured: Thompson


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Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. -Dorothy Thompson

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4025
Aggravations: Forbes


FRONT: If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job. -Malcolm Forbes

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4064
Algebra: Yasenak


FRONT: When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of algebra. -Gene Yasenak

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4029
All True: Hemingway


FRONT: I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true. -Ernest Hemingway

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4004
Anticipating Trouble: Billings


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There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. -Josh Billings

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4008
Autumn: Camus


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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. -Albert Camus

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4005
Be Grateful: Blake


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Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. -Eubie Blake

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4063
Better Idiot: Anon

FRONT: Make it idiot proof and someone will build a better idiot. -Anon

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4016
Billion Dollars: Dirksen

FRONT: A billion dollars here, a billion dollars there, and pretty soon you're talking real money. Everett Dirksen

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4040
Chance: Ovid


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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -Ovid

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4055
Clothes Make the Man: Twain


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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -Mark Twain

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4069
Committees: Chesterton


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I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. G. K. Chesterton

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4089
Congratulate Yourself: Emerson


FRONT: Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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4048
Creating Yourself: Shaw


FRONT: Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -George Bernard Shaw

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4031
Dance: Japanese Proverb


FRONT: We're fools whether we dance or not so we might as well dance. -Japanese Proverb

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4075
Day in June: Lowell


FRONT: And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days. -James Russell Lowell

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4007
Drawing Conclusions: Butler


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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. -Samuel Butler

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4038
Dreams: Nin


FRONT: Dreams are necessary to life. -Anais Nin

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4053
Dreams: Thoreau


FRONT: Dreams are the touchstones of our character. -Henry David Thoreau

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4039
Excellence: Ovid


FRONT: There is no excellence without difficulty. -Ovid

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4017
Failures: Edison


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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -Thomas Edison

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4011
Go Confidently: Thoreau


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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -Henry David Thoreau

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4071
Good Cards: Billings


FRONT:
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -Josh Billings

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4076
Good Harvest: Bohemian Proverb


FRONT: Pray to God for a good harvest, but don't stop hoeing. -Bohemian Proverb

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4014
Govern Myself: de Montaigne


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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. -Michel de Montaigne

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4010
Grand Essentials: Chalmers


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The three grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, someone to love and something to hope for. -Alexander Chalmers

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4072
Great Things: Bernstein


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To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. -Leonard Bernstein

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4079
Growing: Irish Proverb


FRONT: No matter how tall your grandfather was you have to do your own growing. -Irish Proverb

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4083
Have Patience: Saadi


FRONT: Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. -Saadi

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4020
Hero: Emerson


FRONT: A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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4012
His Day: Churchill


FRONT: Everyone has his day and some last longer than others. -Winston Churchill

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4003
Hot Pursuit: Billings


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The happiest time in a man’s life is when he is in hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable chance of overtaking it. -Josh Billings

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4045
Idealist: Sandburg


FRONT: I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. -Carl Sandburg

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4054
If We Wait: Turgenev


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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. Ivan Turgenev

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4047
Imagination: Shaw


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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. -George Bernard Shaw

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4086
Impossible Combination: Twain


FRONT: Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? -Mark Twain

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4079
In Theory: French Saying


FRONT: It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory. -French Management Saying

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4062
Life Is Never Fair: Wilde


FRONT: Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. -Oscar Wilde

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4028
Live Dangerously: Goethe


FRONT: Live dangerously and you live right. -Goethe

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4080
Luck: Leacock


FRONT: I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. -Stephen Leacock

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4084
Make the Most: Emerson


FRONT: Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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4082
Mighty Rivers: Shelley


FRONT: I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers. -Percy Bysshe Shelley

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4090
Mistakes: Joyce


FRONT: Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -James Joyce

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4006
Money: Brown


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Money doesn’t bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. -Hobart Brown

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4066
Money: Chesterton


FRONT: To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. - G. K. Chesterton

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