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 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Rugby In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Rugby
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
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-- Abraham Lincoln Rugby
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-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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criticize others.
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-- Conway's Law Rugby "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
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-- Francois Cavanna There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Rugby
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-- Confucius The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Rugby It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
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didn' If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Rugby
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
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-- Agnes Repplier Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage is a rest period between romances. A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Rugby Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
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-- Rogers Rugby
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-- Anonymous Rugby Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
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truth.
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-- 'Doc' Edgerton "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Rugby
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Rugby Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
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-- Dean Inge Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Rugby
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
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-- Peter DeVries The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
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-- Aldous Huxley Rugby We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Rugby
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
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-- Alfred A. Knopf Rugby Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
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doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
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-- Oscar Wilde The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Rugby
