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Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
- Henry Van Dyke

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
- Vincent Van Gogh

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
- Vincent Van Gogh

Like everyone else I feel the need of affection and friendship...so I cannot miss these things without feeling...a void and deep need. I tell you this to let you know how good your friendship has done me.
- Vincent Van Gogh

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery (1871-1945)

The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
- Bill Vaughan

They can conquer who believe they can. - Vergil We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
- Queen Victoria

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
- Gore Vidal

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
- Gore Vidal

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
- Gore Vidal

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
- last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
- Voltaire

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
- Voltaire

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
- Voltaire Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. - Voltaire God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so. - Voltaire