If the American
Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of
Independence, it would have been worthwhile. Samuel Eliot
Morison Out of the strain of
Doing, into the peace of Done. Unknown Old Gaelic
Blessing May those that love us,
love us, and those that don't, may God turn their ankles so
we'll know them by their limping. The proliferation of
support groups suggests that too many Americans are growing
up in homes that do not contain grandmothers. "Reflections in a
Jaundiced Eye" Throughout all the
Sorrow Songs there breathes a hope - a faith in the ultimate
justice of things.....that sometime, somewhere, men will
judge by their souls and not by their skins. Is such a hope
justified? Do the Sorrow Songs sing true? W.E. B. Du
Bois Joseph
Addison What sunshine is to
flowers, smiles are to humanity. If God can work through
me, he can work through anyone. St. Francis of
Assisi Hope is the feeling you
have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. Jean Kerr Andre Lang He uses statistics as a
drunken man uses lamppost- for support rather than for
illumination. If you want truly to
understand something, try to change it. The art of acceptance is
the art of making someone who has done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one. Russell Lynes Joseph
Addison Reading is to the mind
what exercise is to the body. Brevity is the soul of
wit. William
Shakespeare Wherever any one is
against his will, that is to him a prison. Epictitus Virginia Cary
Hudson Etiquette is what you
are doing and saying when people are looking and listening.
What you are thinking is your business. My own mind is my own
church. Thomas Paine Hell is not other
people. Hell is no other people. Fay Weldon Robert Wagner As a parent you just
hang on for the ride. I am as bad as the
worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. Walt Whitman Fatherhood is pretending
that the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. Bill Cosby Jonathan
Winters Nothing is impossible.
Some things are just less likely than others. A cynic is a man who,
when he smells flowers, looks around for a
coffin. H. L. Mencken A critic is a legless
man who teaches running. Channing
Pollock Unknown The difference between
the ordinary and the extraordinary is that little
extra. Men show their character
in nothing more clearly than by what they find
laughable. Anonymous The most exciting phrase
to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is
not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny ...' Isaac Asimov Sir Winston
Churchill I cannot pretend to feel
impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones
and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. If electricity comes
from electrons, does morality come from morons? Unknown Catapultam habeo. Nisi
pecuniam omnem mihi dabis ad capul tuum saxum immane mittam.
(I have a catapult. Give me all the money or I will fling an
enormous rock at your head.) Traditional Groucho Marx I had a lovely evening.
Unfortunately, this wasn't it. When a poor person dies
of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care
of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I
wanted to give that person what he or she needed. Mother Teresa
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