Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent. ~Langston Coleman
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his Works respectfully quoted by other learned Authors. ~Benjamin Franklin, "Preface," Poor Richard Improved, wording verified by Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations
It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt. ~Abraham Lincoln
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ~Thomas Henry Huxley
In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever. ~Walt Whitman
The wages of sin are death, but after they take the taxes out, it's more like a tired feeling, really. ~Paula Poundstone
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. ~Ogden Nash
Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling. ~Pam Brown
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time! ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. ~Roald Dahl
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~Albert Schweitzer
It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game. ~Vin Scully
They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. ~A.A. Milne
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with. ~Charles Dickens
Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ~Ramona C. Carroll
You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights. ~William Lloyd Garrison
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. ~Charles Dickens
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. ~Orson Welles
All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance. ~V.V. Rozanov
One token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter II "The Market-Place"
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