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~B~

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. ~Albert Giacometti~ (sculptor)

Be careful whose toes you step on today, they might be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow. ~anon~

Before borrowing money from a friend…….. ……..decide which one you need most. ~Anon~

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~Confucious~

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. ~Honore de Balzac~ (1799-1850)

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. ~Karl Wallenda~

Be nice to people on the way up; because you’ll meet the same people on the way down. ~Jimmy Durante~

Be on guard against men who can strike from a distance. ~Aesop~ (620 BC-560 BC)

Better late than never. ~Mathew Henry~

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. ~Joseph Addison~ (1672-11719)

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. ~Henry Ward Beecher~

Beware the fury of the patient man. ~John Dryden~

Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren’t better than violets. ~Edna Ferber~ (Giant)

Black holes are where God divided by zero. ~Steven Wright ~

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. ~anon~

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. ~George Eliot~ (1819-1880)

Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated. ~Robert S. McNamara~

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. ~Andrew Marvell~ (1621-1678)

By far the best proof is experience. ~Francis Bacon~

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~A~

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. ~Carl Sandburg~

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. ~Katharine Hepburn~

A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. ~Len Wein~

Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ~Robert Frost~

All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life. ~Henry Ward Beecher~

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary... and you allow him to make war at pleasure. ~Abraham Lincoln~

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. ~Charles Schwab~

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one. ~Mary Kay Ash~

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. ~Alexander Pope~

Anger is only one letter short of danger. ~Elanor Roosevelt~

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery~

As you wander through this life... Whatever be your goal... Keep your eye upon the donut.... and not upon the hole. ~Anon~

At football I had my try-outs and found that after being slammed to the ground a few times I had no interest in my studies. ~Carl Sandburg~

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. ~Marilyn Monroe~

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~C~

Change in all things is sweet. ~Aristotle~

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments. ~Napoleon Hill~

Children are one third of our population and all of our future. ~anon~

Clever men are good, but they are not the best. ~Johann Wolfgang Goethe~

Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings. ~Dante~

Computer dating is fine, if you’re a computer. ~Rita Mae Brown~

Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons. ~Popular Mechanics, 1949~

Conversation should be pleasant without scurritity, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. ~William Shakespeare~

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. ~Wilson Mizner~ (1876-1933)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? ~George Price~

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. ~Alfred E. Newman~

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ~Henry Louis Mencken~ (1880-1956)

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~D~

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. ~Socrates~

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. ~Aristotle~

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ~Irving Kristol~

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. ~Mark Twain~ (1835-1910)

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~Abraham Lincoln~

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca~

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving then. ~Aristotle~ (384-322BC)

Diplomacy is the ability to tell a man where to go and make him think he will enjoy the trip. ~anon~

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. ~Henry David Thoreau~ (1817-1862)

Do not judge people by a messy car! Some things just have to give. ~Nancy Swan Drew~ (Love Pearls)

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty. What is the matter with the Rich is Uselessness. ~George Bernard Shaw~

Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back. ~Babe Ruth~

Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. ~Yoda~ ('The Empire Strikes Back')

Don't be so humble - you are not that great. ~Golda Meir~ (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson~

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. - last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. ~George Burns~ (1896-1996)

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.

Walk beside me and be my friend.

~Albert Camus~

Don't worry about the people in your past. There's a reason they didn't make it to your future. ~Anon~

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a man who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. ~George Burns~

Dreamz come in many colors, but it takes a believer to see more than just black and white. ~R.P. Crossen~

Due to economic conditions, the light at the end of the tunnel has been temporarily turned off. ~Anon~

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KnightOwl's Quotations

Proverbs, Sayings, and Snippets

Page 1

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~E~

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. ~Rene Descartes~ (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. It is not teaching the youth the shapes of letters and the tricks of numbers, and then leaving them to turn their arithmetic to roguery, and their literature to lust. It means, on the contrary, training them into the perfect exercise and kingly continence of their bodies and souls. It is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, but above all --- by example. ~ John Ruskin ~

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~Will Durant ~

Education is not received. It is achieved. ~anon~

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. ~Ambrose Bierce~ (1842-1914)

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius. ~Isaac Disraeli~

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence. ~Henry Chester~

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. ~Harold Coffin~

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. ~ Albert Einstein ~

Even a smile is charity. ~Anon~

Ever notice how it's a penny for your thoughts, yet you put in your two-cents? Someone is making a penny on the deal. ~Steven Wright~

Ever notice that when a man gets married, his wife takes his name, but when he makes out a will, he puts everything in her name? ~Charles Bogart~

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. ~Robert Orben~

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. ~Henry Louis Mencken~ (1880-1956)

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. ~Georg Lichtenberg~ (1742-1799)

Everything has been figured out, except how to live. ~Jean-Paul Sartre~ (1905-1980)

Everything that can be invented has been invented. ~Charles H. Duell~ (Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899)

Everything works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out, it's not the end. ~Unknown~

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. ~Flannery O'Connor~ (1925-1964)

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers. ~ Charles Kingsley ~

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