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A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.: Joseph Roux
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It's a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, but few are chosen.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
Boxing is just show business with blood.: Frank Bruno
There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXLVII
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.: John Rogers, Kung Fu Monkey, 06-25-11
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It's all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end.: Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, 2003
I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.: Lech Walesa (1943 - )
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), New York Times, October 4, 1953
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 08-06-08
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A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.: Phyllis Mcginley
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.: Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.: Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
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