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My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others. ~Edmund Burke



Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself. ~Alfred Sheinwold



Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~Kimberly Johnson Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~Kimberly Johnson



A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do. ~Osbert Sitwell



There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. ~E.V. Lucas



There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen. ~Alexandre Dumas



Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. ~Robert Ingersoll Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



I don't want you to think I lie awake at night counting - and recounting - sheep. ~Al Gore, speech, 2004 Democratic National Convention



Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. ~Author Unknown



Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has. ~Elizabeth O'Connor



For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. ~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974



The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. ~Douglas Adams



For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 16



Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. ~Kathleen Norris



The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path. ~Mason Cooley



One almost expects one of the players to peer into the monitor and politely request viewers to refrain from munching so loudly on cheese and crackers while the golfers are trying to reach the greens. ~Pete Alfano



We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school. ~Charlotte Gray



There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them. ~Alexandre Ledru-Rollin



The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer. ~Joan Collins



He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ~Samuel Johnson