Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
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-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
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-- Deborah Tan The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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-- Thornton Wilder In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
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-- Marianne Williamson "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
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-- Joseph Addison Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
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-- George The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
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-- Gloria Steinem Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
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-- Niccolo Machiavelli No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
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-- Cesare Pavese Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
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"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
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-- Billy Sunday True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
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-- Confucius The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
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"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
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-- Countess of Blessington The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
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-- Thomas Carlyle We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Value your words. Each one may be the last.
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Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
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-- Joseph Addison The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
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-- Elbert Hubbard There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
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Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Central Switzerland What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
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