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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face...You must do the thing you think you cannot do." --Eleanor Roosevelt

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men." --Abraham Lincoln

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed concerned citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead

"I will find a way or make one."

Der Zustand ist ganz hoffnungslos,aber nicht ernst. => The situation is hopeless, but not serious.(An old Viennese expression)

'Be kind to dragons, for you are crunchy and go well with ketchup.' -Melinda Sheffler

'You can kill me if you want, but I might resist a little.' --Trowa Barton

The reading which has pleased, will please when repeated ten times- Horace

'True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.'
-Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, 1711AD

Sleep tight, Don't let the marshmallows bite,
and if they do, catch a few, and eat them too.
-Melinda Sheffler

'I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.'--Ken Kesey

I tell no-one any story but his own.-Aslan via C.S. Lewis

"Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis." => To action little, less to words inclined. -Horace

Qui plus sait, plus se tait => (French) The more a man knows, the less he speaks.

"In the advertising world, "now" is the right time for everything."--Lindsey O'Donnell

"Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything." -Euripides

What grevious pain a little fault doth give thee! -Dante

Suddenly my gold fountain pen is missing. I am therefore yours in crayon. --Bernard and the Genie

Vitam impendere vero -To stake one's life for the truth.

Das werd lobt den Meister(German proverb) => The work proves the craftsman.

"La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia" -(Spanish) => Experience is the mother of knowledge. -Cervantes

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on..." -Shakespeare, Prospero in The Tempest

"Que la terre is petite a qui la voit des cieux! -(French) => How small is the Earth to him who looks from Heaven! -Delille

As paredes tem ouvidos. -(Portuguese)=> Walls have ears.

Advertising: The science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. - Stephen Leacock

I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. - Ed Bluestone

Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. - Steve Bluestone

Everything is drive-through. In California they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box. - Wil Shriner

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top. - O.J. Simpson

I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.- Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream

The Little boy was looking for his voice;
the King of the Crickets had it In a drop of water
the little boy was looking for his voice
I do now want it for speaking with;
I will make a ring of it
So that he may wear my silence on his little finger
-W.S. Merlin

Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret -Nothing Deters a good man from doing what is honorable.

Justitiae soror fides -(Latin)=>Faith is the sister of Justice

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point -(French)=> The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. -Pascal

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
--Erma Bombeck

Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows. --Jennifer Unlimited

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. --Jennifer Unlimited

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to serve as a horrible warning. --Catherine Aird

Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
--Charlotte Whitton

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore."
-Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

"When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any money is left, I buy food and clothes."
-Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)

"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier."-Kathleen Norris

"The end of reading is not more books but more life."
-Holbrook Jackson

"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep." -Talleyrand

"I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God."
-Alan Hovhaness

"Hindsight is an exact science." -Guy Bellamy

"The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks the most deeply and draws more blood."
-Maya Angelou

"The knowledge that a secret exists is half the secret."
-Joshua Mayrowitz

"Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest." -Karen Savage

"Goals are dreams with deadlines" -Diana Scharf Hunt

"How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?" -Kearney

Irish Toast: May you have the hindsight to know where you're been, the foresight to know where you're going, and the insight to know when you're going too far.

"If nobody knows what should be done, everybody says, "something should be done!"." -Helmut Qualtinger

Some have trouble wrapping words around their concepts.

A journey of a thousand miles starts with one argument over how to load the car.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can manage to wriggle out of today.

Dig the well before you are thirsty --Chinese Proverb

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." -Oscar Wilde

"How are you dodging my shots! Are you anticipating the bullet from the angle of my gun or the movement of my hand?" Vash--"No, you're just a bad shot". --Trigun

"Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancels others." -Clara Winston

"There is always danger for those who are affraid of it." -Bernard Shaw

"An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame." -Sam Ewing

"Trust yourself. You know more that you think you do."
-Benjamin Spock

"And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and we ripe, and then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, and thereby hangs a tale." -Shakespeare

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." --Walter Winchell

"Winter is not a season; it's an occupation." -Sinclair Lewis

"When guests stay too long, try treating them like members of the family. If they don't leave then, they never will." --Martin Ragaway

"Anyone can make a mistake. A fool insists on repeating it." --Robertine Maynard

"The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying."
--Paul C. Roud

"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen"
--Earl Wilson

"Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind."
--Robert G. Ingersoll

"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."
--Geena Davis

"A government is the only vessel known to leak from the top." --James Reston
"God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts."

"Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a seat has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure."---Shallow Thoughts

I am nostalgic for a time I never knew.---Chris Stevens (Northern Exposure)

On the subject of Zen: Have you ever tried to think like a shower?---Chris Stevens (Northern Exposure)

"Angels and Ministers of Grace, defend us!"
--Hamlet Act 1, Scene 4, Line 39

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny' ...."
--Isaac Asimov

"Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences."
--Remembrance of the Daleks, (7th) Doctor Who

"Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority." --'The Wheel in Space', (2nd) Doctor Who

"The trouble with computers, is they're very sophistiacted idiots" --'Robot', (4th) Doctor Who

"The shortest distance between two points may be a line, but by no means is it the most interesting." --'The Time Warrior', (3rd) Doctor Who

Trouble never comes in one's or two's. It always comes in triple sixes. --Mel.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. --Groucho Marx

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide. - Desiderius Erasmus

"What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover,
only the clover isn't good enough." - Bertolt Brecht