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Motto: a short expression of a guiding principle or ideal of behavior; a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use. Example: "Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time." ~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society



Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses. ~Oscar Wilde



He who does not economize will have to agonize. ~Confucius



There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. ~John Wainwright



There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Like those special afternoons in summer when you go to Yankee Stadium at two o'clock in the afternoon for an eight o'clock game. It's so big, so empty and so silent that you can almost hear the sounds that aren't there. ~Ray Miller



Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't. ~Author Unknown



Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ~Ludwig van Beethoven



It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others.... One ever feels his twoness, - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ~W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903



You know, sometimes a man just can't satisfy all of a woman's desires. Which is why God invented dental floss. ~Author Unknown



If God asks that you bend, bend and do not complain. He is making you more flexible, and for this be thankful. ~Terri Guillemets



In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. ~Jane Haddam



But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. ~George Orwell



Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. ~Mary Daly



A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. ~Yogi Berra



Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece. ~Author Unknown



None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. ~Thurgood Marshall



Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. ~James Baldwin



We'd all be worse without a nurse. ~Author Unknown