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whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present?: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!: Laurie Anderson
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed.: Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.: Thomas Hardy
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I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.: Charles De Secondat (1689 - 1755)
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Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.: Jacques Delille
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For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.: Storm Jameson
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.: An English Professor, Ohio University
Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.: Jay Leno (1950 - )
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed)
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?: Jay Leno (1950 - )
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
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I shall not pretend that I do not prefer to have people adore me rather than revile me, but I have always found that it was far easier for me to suffer the disapprobation of others than to amend my behaviour in order to find favour with them.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.: William Hale White
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.: Antonia Brenner