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Larry Wright


If Darwin's theory of evolution was correct, cats would be able to operate a can opener by now.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


Never injure a friend, even in jest.

William Bolitho


An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.

Kin Hubbard


Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Henry Van Dyke


Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars and sun.

Unknown


How to win a case in court: If the law is on your side, pound on the law; if the facts are on your side, pound on the facts; if neither is on your side, pound on the table.

Ernest Dimnet


Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Richard Feynman


I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

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Bill Hoest


I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.

Sir John Gielgud


Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

Heinrich Heine


Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Larry Wall


The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

W. T. Ussery


Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.

Edward H. Harriman


Every man should make up his own mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.

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Matthew Prior, "Hans Carvel" (1701)


The ends must justify the means.

Clifton Fadiman


Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Seneca


Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

Danish proverb


Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.

Russell Baker


Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Al Batt, in National Enquirer


The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Agnes Repplier


It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

George Eliot


There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Muhammad Ali


If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Anon.


Old hackers never die. They just go to bitnet.

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William Ashley


Better limp all the way to heaven than not get there at all.

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"


#3537. Superfluity does not vitiate.

Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992


The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

William Shakespeare, A Comedy of Errors


He that commends me to mine own content
Commends me to the thing I cannot get.

Isaac Newton


I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt


We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Mark Twain


A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Denis Watley


Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.

Claude Adrien Helvetius


There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

Lois McMaster Bujold


A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending that he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality.

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Sir Walter Scott


To all, to each, a fair good night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Martha Beck


Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy�

Seneca


It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Jeremy Schwartz


Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.

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Hellen Keller


There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Oscar Wilde, Letter from Paris, dated May 1900


People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.

Maya Angelou


I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Otto Kleppner


The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.

Gerard Houllier, UEFA Cup Final 2001 pre-match team talk


Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.

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