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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
- Oscar Wilde

It is easier to stay out than get out.
- Mark Twain

Let us so live that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
- Winnie the Pooh

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
- Sir Barnett Cocks

We have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say, 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you're just in the way.
- Ani Difranco

The Universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
- Fred Hoyle, astronomer and science fiction writer

The other day I was sitting around the house listening to an Alanis Morissette CD, and the doorbell rang, so I slipped the gun out of my mouth.
- Vernon Chatman

I do not know what I appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
- Sir Isaac Newton

The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
- Albert Einstein

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
- Albert Einstein

Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.
- Swedish Proverb

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
- Robert Frost

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar...I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
- Anon

Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
- Bennett Cerf

You can't test courage cautiously.
- Anne Dillard

I feel a lot more like I do now than I did when I got here.
- Chevy Chase

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

A man's kiss is his signature.
- Mae West

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
- Christina Georgina Rossetti

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- Leonardo Da Vinci

The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.
- Ferdinand Magellan

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.
- Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth

Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.
- U. Peter

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.
- Philip Caldwell

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
- Truman Capote

If you think women are the weaker sex, try pulling the blankets back to your side.
- Stuart Turner

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

Look for the light behind every shadow.
- Robert Schuler

I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I had no idea about.
- Elliot Abrams

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
- Josh Billings

One of the best things about love is just recognizing a man's step when he climbs the stairs.
- Benjamin Franklin

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
- Victor Borge

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
- George McGovern

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
- John J. Plomp

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
- Mark Russell

You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut.
- Anon

You are the only person on this earth who can use your ability.
- Anon

Every passing day is one that is gone forever. Make sure it is one in which you have done something for others, especially those who cannot do for themselves.
- Anon

I tell you and you forget. I show you and you remember. I involve you and you understand.
- Eric Butterworth

When you say things in anger, you leave a scar just like nail holes in a fence. You can put a knife in a person and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say "I'm sorry," the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.
- Anon

Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Anon

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- Douglas Adams

Always be a little kinder than necessary.
- James M. Barrie

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
- Albert Einstein

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
- Michael Caine

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
- Wendell Johnson

Good looks open doors, but they don't keep you in the room.
- Todd Coomber

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
- Phyllis Diller

Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
- Anon

Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
- Anon

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
- Bill Watterson, cartoonist

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
- Anon

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Arthur Godfrey

Life is too short for traffic.
- Dan Bellack

Love and a cough cannot be hid.
- George Herbert

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
- Donald Laird

A soft answer turneth away wrath.
- Proverbs 15:1

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
- Pablo Picasso

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
- Ralph Gerard

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
- Joseph Joubert

We are what we repeatedly do.
- Anon

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
- Carl Perkins

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
- Anon

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
- Dick Cavett

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.
- Terry McKay, 'An Affair to Remember'

After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an accident, it makes you wonder about history.
- Dave Barry

Many men stumble across the truth, but most manage to pick themselves up and continue on as if nothing happened. - Winston Churchill

Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.
- Jeremy Schwartz

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Theresa

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
- W. M. Lewis

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.
- Pablo Picasso

I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.
- Mata Hari

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