Tag: quotes
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July 10, 2008 03:26 AM EDT --
"The human soul is but part of a burning torch which God separated from Himself at Creation"
~Kahlil Gibran
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March 08, 2007 05:24 AM EST --
A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, . . .
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March 05, 2007 03:28 PM EST --
To me, all poetry pales next to this guy:
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm
arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings . . .
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March 09, 2007 12:23 AM EST --
George: Grace, those are beautiful flowers. Where did they come from?
Gracie: Don't you remember, George? You said that if I went to visit Clara Bagley
in the hospital I should be sure to take . . .
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March 09, 2007 08:11 PM EST --
See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough
blood to run one at a time.
Robin Williams
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin . . .
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March 05, 2007 03:04 PM EST --
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know . . .
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March 18, 2007 04:45 PM EDT --
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
Mae West
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
Mae West
Between two evils, I always pick the . . .
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March 19, 2007 12:31 AM EDT --
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas Jefferson
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people . . .
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March 19, 2007 09:51 AM EDT --
A varied selection of quotes (once again, I must apologise for the spacing...the "remove formatting" tool appears to have no effect on it):
"To laugh often and much; to win the . . .
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March 28, 2007 06:51 PM EDT --
Get mad, then get over it.
Colin Powell
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had . . .
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March 29, 2007 04:01 AM EDT --
People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.
George Burns
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
George Burns
It . . .
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April 13, 2007 06:28 PM EDT --
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
We know the truth, not . . .
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April 26, 2009 12:07 PM EDT --
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
~ Mohandas Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi (1869 - 1948), known as 'Mahatma' (Great . . .
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March 15, 2007 07:16 PM EDT --
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most . . .
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March 19, 2007 09:22 AM EDT --
"Gratitude is riches and complaint is poverty and the worse I ever had was wonderful."
Brother Dave Garner
(This story doesn't belong to me. The man it belonged . . .
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December 02, 2009 10:29 AM EST --
George Bernard Shaw ~ (26 July, 1856 – 2 November, 1950)
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the . . .
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November 10, 2009 06:26 AM EST --
"GOOD SENSE is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for everyone thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to . . .
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March 22, 2007 09:27 PM EDT --
"You are only as young as the last time you changed your mind."
Timothy Leary
"ave, Caesar, morituri te" (hail, Caesar, we who are about to die salute you)
Roman Gladiator . . .
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May 17, 2008 11:04 AM EDT --
"God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful then that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your . . .
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November 23, 2008 05:46 AM EST --
If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished? ~ Rumi
______ ~ Rumi (Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī) (1207-1273) ~
I died as a mineral and became a . . .
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