• It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. [Roman Emperor Marcus Aelius Aurelius (121-180 AD)]
  • If you love someone, tell them. For hearts are often broken by words left unspoken.
  • A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
  • Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not. [Virgil Thomson]
  • Paralized with empathy I clearly saw the arguments from both sides. Each side was, in a way, right. Yet they were in complete disagreement. So I did nothing.
  • For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit. [George Allen]
  • There's no future in time travel.
  • Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper [Robert Frost]
  • He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know. [Lao Tzu]
  • Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else
  • Never test the depth of the water with both feet
  • It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others
  • That man is best who sees the truth himself,
    good too is he who listens to wise counsel;
    but who is neither wise himself, nor willing
    to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.
    [Hesiod]
  • The life that I have is all that I have,
    and the life that I have is yours.
    The love that I have of the life that I have
    Is yours and yours and yours.
    [Leo Marks]
  • One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
  • Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. [Mark Twain]
  • Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who can not be persuaded to say it. [James Russell Lowell]
  • Imagination is more important than knowledge. [Albert Einstein]
  • If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. [Nelson Mandela]
  • The dignified don't even enter in the game. [The Jam]
  • Everything that can be said, can be said clearly. [Wittgenstein: Tract. Illogical Philosop]
  • Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. [Theodore Vail]
  • Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something. [Plato]
  • One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. [Leonardo da Vinci]
  • Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans [John Lennon]
  • I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.
  • If you're the low man on the totem pole, just remember that if it wasn't for you the damn thing would fall over.
  • People who do the world's real work don't usually wear neckties.
  • Usually I try to take it one day at a time, but lately several have attacked me at once...
  • Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.

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