There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
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-- George Bernard Shaw I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Jewelry Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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-- Oscar Wilde Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
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If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
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-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
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-- Mark Twain When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
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-- Samuel Butler Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
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-- Jerry Seinfeld Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
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-- Alexander Pope You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
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The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Jewelry Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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-- Robert Frost When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
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