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Sunday, May 13, 2007
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
and the silliest"
- Mighty Aphrodite
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
- Erma Bombeck
marriage
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash, 1902 - 1971
spirit
"Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh--I really think that requires SPIRIT.
It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh--also if I win."
- Jean Webster, Daddy Long Legs
proverbs
- Arabic proverb
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- Chinese proverb
Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.
- Danish proverb
He who is outside the door has already a good part of the journey behind him.
- Dutch proverb
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know
they shall never sit in.
- Greek proverb
Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice.
- Italian proverb
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
- Japanese proverb
Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine.
- Polish proverb
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
- Slovenian proverb
A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.
- Yiddish proverb
When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over
what it has left.
- Sufi proverb
Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
- Lebanese proverb
- The Office
- Cyril Connolly
Thursday, October 05, 2006
- Francis Bacon, 1561 - 1626
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum. (I think I think, therefore, I think I am.)
- Ambrose Bierce
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller, 1880 - 1968
Monday, October 02, 2006
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more. -Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910)
People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, 1926 - 2004
"Happiness is an attitude not a circumstance"
- Ruskin Bond
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
- M. Kathleen Casey
Thursday, August 31, 2006
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins, 1899 - 1977
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