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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Antiques and Collectibles No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Antiques and Collectibles
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Antiques and Collectibles People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Antiques and Collectibles
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Antiques and Collectibles "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Antiques and Collectibles
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Antiques and Collectibles When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Antiques and Collectibles
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Antiques and Collectibles The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Antiques and Collectibles
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Antiques and Collectibles By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Antiques and Collectibles
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Antiques and Collectibles There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Antiques and Collectibles I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Antiques and Collectibles
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Antiques and Collectibles The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Antiques and Collectibles
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Antiques and Collectibles The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "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 Antiques and Collectibles
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Antiques and Collectibles I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Antiques and Collectibles
