I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants. ~Zig Ziglar
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. ~Stanislaw Lec
"Children, don't speak so coarsely," said Mr. Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library. ~Robertson Davies, Tempest Tost
Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. ~Author Unknown
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. ~Sinclair Lewis Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. ~Sinclair Lewis Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. ~Albert Edward Wiggam
Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins. ~Victoria Billings
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. ~Josh Billings
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. ~Martin Golding
Truly to sing, that is a different breath. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
A blessed companion is a book, - a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,... a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own. ~Douglas Jerrold
Only the dead have seen the end of war. ~Plato
It's a public service when a gay chick goes lipstick instead of lumberjack. ~Two and a Half Men, "Alan Harper, Frontier Chiropractor," teleplay by Lee Aronsohn and Mark Roberts, original airdate 15 December 2003, spoken by the character Charlie Harper
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. ~Pierre Corneille, Le Menteur
Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. ~Doug Larson Eternity alone can reveal to the human race its debt of gratitude to the peerless and immortal name of Washington. ~James A. Garfield
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. ~H.L. Mencken
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did. ~Red Cloud
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes. ~Luigi Pirandello
In the end, poverty, putridity and pestilence; work, wealth and worry; health, happiness and hell, all simmer down into village problems. ~Martin H. Fischer
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
My blood type is Folgers. ~Author Unknown
Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty, and sometimes attract pests. ~Author Unknown
A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. ~Andre Maurois
If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies. ~Elmer Rice
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