It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose. ~Sandy Lyle
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ~Peter Drucker
My heart beat so hard when I was near him, I feared he could hear my secret longing for him. ~Destiny Vaestus
What I like about camping is you can get really dirty. Either you're all by yourself, so no one else sees you, or everyone you're with is just as dirty as you are, so nobody cares. ~Anonymous former Boy Scout, quoted in Highs! Over 150 Ways to Feel Really, Really Good Without Alcohol or Other Drugs by Alex J. Packer
I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a holiday which is filled with tedium; that many people dread the day and the obligation to give Christmas presents is a nightmare to weary, bored souls; that the children of enlightened parents no longer believe in Santa Claus; that all in all, the effort to be happy and have pleasure makes many honest hearts grow dark with despair instead of beaming with good will and cheerfulness. ~Julia Peterkin, A Plantation Christmas, 1934
I like my coffee strong, not lethal! ~M*A*S*H
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. ~Leonard Louis Levinson
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. ~Mary Wortley Montagu
There are worlds in an opal. ~Astrid Alauda
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. ~James Russell Lowell
It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it. ~Roseanne Barr
If we don't go crazy once in a while, we'll all go crazy. ~Hawkeye, "Bulletin Board," original airdate 14 January 1975, written by Larry Gelbart, directed by Alan Alda
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. ~Lewis Mumford
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. ~Lord Acton, letter to Mary Gladstone, 24 April 1881
If you hold a four-leaf shamrock in your left hand at dawn on St. Patrick's Day you get what you want very much but haven't wished for. ~Patricia Lynch
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world. ~Charles and Ann Morse
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. ~Marcus Antonius Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. ~Marcus Antonius
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. ~Henrik Tikkanen
I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures? ~Thomas Jefferson
Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends. ~Richard Bach
Prayer is communication with the Divine. It can be whispered or chanted or written or expressed in the work you do. However it is expressed, it is never in vain. ~Donna Wilk Cardillo
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Avoid all needle drugs - the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon. ~Abbie Hoffman
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