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Valery, Paul

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Van Buren, Abigail

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.

Van Buren, Abigail

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does&emdash;except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Van DerZee, James

Happiness is a perfume: you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.

Van Gogh, Vincent

If you hear a voice within you saying, "You are not a painter," then by all means paint&emdash;and that voice will be silenced.

Vanbee, Martin

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do&emdash;do it and let it speak for itself.

Vanier, Jean

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

Vauvenarges

To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.

Vietnamese proverb

Venture all; see what fate brings.

Virgil

Believe one who has tried it.

Virgil

They can do all because they think they can.

Visa Card

A journey of a thousand miles starts with a cash advance.

Voltaire

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Voltaire

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.

Voltaire

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

von Goethe, Johann

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

von Goethe, Johann

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

von Goethe, Johann

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Von Furstenberg, Diane

Life is a risk.

von Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

von Zimmermann, Johann Georg

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

Vonnegut, Kurt

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.

People have to talk about something just to keep their good voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

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