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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.: Spanish Proverb
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.: James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958), The Silver Stallion, 1926
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The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.: Vidal Sassoon
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.: Thich Nhat Hanh
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My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.: Mike Myers
If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.: Nora Ephron
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.: Arthur Ashe
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), 'Pro Plancio,' 54 B.C.
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It is fun to be in the same decade with you.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), in a letter to Winston Churchill
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.: Hesketh Pearson
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Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.: Baltasar Gracian
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.: Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.: Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"
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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?: Jean Kerr
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