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Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver. ~Author Unknown



I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. ~Abraham Lincoln



The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. ~Pierre Corneille, Le Menteur



The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. ~Napoleon Bonaparte



Hitch your wagon to a star. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch. ~Leo Dworken



There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious. ~P.G. Wodehouse, A Mixed Threesome, 1922



The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind. ~Thalassa Cruso, To Everything There is a Season, 1973



My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him. ~Margot Asquith



There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



What we do flows from who we are. ~Paul Vitale



The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. ~Author unknown, but probably a secretary!



It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11



Wall Street criminality is growing by leaps. There are no bounds. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ~Bertrand Russell



The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872



I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, letter to wife Sophia, 5 December 1839



When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world. ~B.K.S. Iyengar



Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time. ~Martin Luther