If there is a God, he's a great mathematician. ~Paul Dirac
War makes thieves and peace hangs them. ~George Herbert
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. ~George Santayana, "War Shrines," Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies, 1922
Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. ~Oscar Wilde
Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, "This I am today; that I will be tomorrow." ~Louis L'Amour
Some people can hack it, others can't. ~Author Unknown
This is a honeydew day. That is when you get a day off and the wife says, "Honey, do this," and "Honey, do that" around the house. ~Jim Lemon
You might be a firefighter if your kids are afraid to get into water fights with you. ~Author Unknown
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Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. ~Catherine O'Hara
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. ~Anton Chekhov
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. ~Victor Hugo
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ~Walt Streightiff There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~Beverly Sills
Cheerleaders know that pyramids were not built in Egypt. ~Author Unknown
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. ~Pubilius Syrus
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime. ~Edward Abbey
Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what's needed to be done. Today we are called once more - and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith - that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it. ~Barack Obama, Announcement for President, 2007 Feb 10, Springfield, Illinois
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. ~Elizabeth Lawrence
Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing. ~Willis Thornton, Fable, Fact and History
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~Victor Hugo
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? ~John Churton Collins, Aphorisms in the English Review, 1914
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