Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
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truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
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- Sacha Guitry Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
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-- Flannery O'Connor "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Organizations
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
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-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
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-- Jacob Braude Organizations I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
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It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
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-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
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-- Smith & Jones I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
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- Sir Winston Churchill Organizations Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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-- Anonymous America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
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-- George Clemenceau Organizations
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-- Antonio Porchi I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
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-- Rodney Dangerfield Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Organizations The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
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My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
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-- George Bernard Shaw To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Organizations Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
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Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
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-- H. L. Mencken Organizations Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
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"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Organizations "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Organizations
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character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Organizations "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Organizations Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
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-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Organizations
