Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair. ~William Congreve, The Way of the World, spoken by the character Mrs Millamant
You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Laurence J. Peter
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. ~Edna St Vincent Millay
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood. ~Heinrich Heine
Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. ~Grantland Rice
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. ~George Santayana
Logic hasn't wholly dispelled the society of witches and prophets and sorcerers and soothsayers. ~Raymond F. Jones, The Non-Statistical Man
Hatreds are the cinders of affection. ~Walter Raleigh
Prayer is communication with the Divine. It can be whispered or chanted or written or expressed in the work you do. However it is expressed, it is never in vain. ~Donna Wilk Cardillo
You could move. ~Abigail Van Buren, "Dear Abby," in response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood
I think I just ate my willpower. ~Author Unknown
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something. ~Wilson Mizner
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. ~Lana Turner
Your Honor, a courtroom is a crucible. In it, we burn away irrelevancies until we're left with a pure product - the truth, for all time. ~Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The Measure of a Man," Jean-Luc Picard
If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. ~Aristotle
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Flight to Arras One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ~Odell Shepherd
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. ~Errol Flynn
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. ~John C. Collins
His heart and his brain were utterly foreign to all vindictiveness or personal bitterness. He declared himself hotly and strongly against wrong causes, but never against men. ~London Spectator
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Firefighting is all about ass - busting ours to save yours. ~Author Unknown
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