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It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Foot and Mouth Crisis "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Foot and Mouth Crisis
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Foot and Mouth Crisis A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Foot and Mouth Crisis
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Foot and Mouth Crisis Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Foot and Mouth Crisis
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Foot and Mouth Crisis This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Foot and Mouth Crisis
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Foot and Mouth Crisis "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Foot and Mouth Crisis
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Foot and Mouth Crisis The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Foot and Mouth Crisis
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Foot and Mouth Crisis Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Foot and Mouth Crisis
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Foot and Mouth Crisis "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Foot and Mouth Crisis
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Foot and Mouth Crisis Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Foot and Mouth Crisis
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Foot and Mouth Crisis Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn 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.
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Foot and Mouth Crisis
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Foot and Mouth Crisis When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Foot and Mouth Crisis
