A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them. ~Variation of a saying by Albert Einstein
Education is the best provision for old age. ~Aristotle
If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love. ~Lloyd Alexander
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. ~Henry Louis Mencken
Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. ~William McFee
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. ~Francis Bacon
Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more. ~George Bernard Shaw
If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today. ~Author Unknown
People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. ~David H. Comins
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. ~Thornton Wilder
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. ~Proverbs 24:16
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
The better the gambler, the worse the man. ~Publius Syrus
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. ~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922
A Christmas shopper's complaint is one of long-standing. ~Author Unknown
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. ~Bern Williams
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. ~Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1770
If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion. ~Ashleigh Brilliant
A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. ~Author Unknown
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. ~Theodore Roosevelt
Coffee: The first peripheral! ~Author Unknown
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. ~William Shakespeare
The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do. ~Louis Gottschalk, Understanding History
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