W. C. Fields

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• If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

  • Success

• Start off every day with a smile and get it over with.

  • Happiness

• Never give a sucker an even break.

  According to Collier’s (28 November 1925), Fields is said to have used this line as early as 1923 in the musical comedy play Poppy

  • Comedy

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy