In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end. ~Fred Couples
Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start - but they can't when they finish. ~Martin H. Fischer
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~Louis Hector Berlioz
California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America. ~Hinton R. Helper
Present your family and friends with their eulogies now - they won't be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin. ~Anonymous
There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment. ~Ramana Maharshi, attributed
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. ~Jane Austen
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out.... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ~A.E. Housman
The summer night is like a perfection of thought. ~Wallace Stevens
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. ~Oscar Wilde
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. ~I Corinthians 13:9
One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ~Sidney Howard
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain
It is curious that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Perhaps people like the world they can see from a bike, or the air they breathe when they're out on a bike. Or they like the bicycle's simplicity and the precision with which it is made. Or because they like the feeling of being able to hurtle through air one minute, and saunter through a park the next, without leaving behind clouds of choking exhaust, without leaving behind so much as a footstep. ~Gurdon S. Leete
We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. ~Abigail Adams
The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~Scott Hamilton
Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely. ~Franklin P. Jones
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. ~Tony Blair
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ~William Shakespeare
One thousand Americans stop smoking every day - by dying. ~Author Unknown
People that put themselves above others will fall longer and harder. ~Gina Lindley
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