All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Water flows uphill towards money. ~Anonymous, saying in the American West, quoted by Ivan Doig in Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert, 1986
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. ~Harry Golden The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. ~Harry Golden
Marriage is a meal where the soup is better than the dessert. ~Austin O'Malley
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. ~G.K. Chesterton
Parenthood is a lot easier to get into than out of. ~Bruce Lansky
What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. ~William Carlos Williams
A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is smoking a cigarette with a satisfied smile on its face and the egg is frowning and looking put out. The egg mutters to no one in particular, "I guess we answered that question." ~Author Unknown
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. ~Adlai E. Stevenson
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracian
Without the karma of good deeds, they are only destroying themselves. ~Sri Guru Granth Sahib
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. ~Oscar Wilde
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. ~Hafez
He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. ~Pablo Neruda, quoted in Wall Street Journal,, 14 November 1985
Version 1 of any software is full of bugs. Version 2 fixes all the bugs and is great. Version 3 adds all the things users ask for, but hides all the great stuff in Version 2. ~Fred Blechman
The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits. ~Albert Camus, Le Suicide philosophique
Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves. ~Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~Mother Teresa
It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ~Winston Churchill
To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals. ~Don Schrader
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. ~Emily Dickinson
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