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August 2004 Quotes

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost
to disturb your repose later on.
Frederic Chopin

The greatest lesson in life is to know
that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill

Real generosity is doing something nice
for someone who will never find out.
Frank A Clark

There are days when solitude is a heady
wine that intoxicates you with freedom,
others when it is a bitter tonic, and still
others when it is a poison that makes
you beat your head against the wall.
Colette

As no roads are so rough as those
that have just been mended, so no
sinners are so intolerant as those
that have just turned saints.
Charles Caleb Colton

When you realize you want to spend
the rest of your life with somebody,
you want the rest of your life
to start as soon as possible.
Billy Crystal

There is a soul of truth in error;
there is a soul of good in evil.
Clarence Darrow

It is not the strongest of the species
that survive, nor the most intelligent, but
the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin

What is a friend? A single
soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

You can say any foolish thing to a dog,
and the dog will give you this look that
says, "My God, you're right! I
never would've thought of that!
Dave Barry

It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
Henry Ward Beecher

Liberty is being free from the things
we don't like in order to be slaves
to the things we do like.
Ernest Benn

Losers spend time explaining why they lost.
Losers spend their lives thinking about
what they're going to do. They rarely
enjoy doing what they're doing.
Eric Berne

Silence is one of the hardest
arguments to refute.
Josh Billings

No one ever won a chess game by betting
on each move. Sometimes you have to
move backward to get a step forward.
Amar Gopal Bose

Jealousy is no more than feeling
alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth E Bowen

Authority without wisdom
is like a heavy axe without
an edge, fitter
to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet

Science increases our power in
proportion as it lowers our pride.
Claude Bernard

Real charity doesn't care
if it's tax-deductible or not.
Dan Bennett  

One-half the troubles of this
life can be traced to saying yes
too quickly and not
saying no soon enough.
Josh Billings

Good manners sometimes
means simply putting up with
other people's bad manners.
H Jackson Brown, Jr

It is possible to own too much.
A man with one watch knows
what time it is; a man with
two watches is never sure.
Gene Brown

About all you can do in life is be who you are.
Some people will love you for you.
Most will love you for what you can do
for them, and some won't like you at all.
Rita Mae Brown

Anger will never disappear so
long as thoughts of resentment are
cherished in the mind. Anger will
disappear just as soon as thoughts
of resentment are forgotten.
Buddha Gotama

Some men are like nails,
very easily drawn; others
however are more like
rivets never drawn at all.
John Burroughs

The rule in carving holds good
as to criticism; never cut with a knife
what you can cut with a spoon.
Charles Buxton

A man begins cutting his
wisdom teeth the first time he bites
off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen

Nobody realizes that some people expend
tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus