You don't take a photograph, you make it. ~Ansel Adams
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. ~Bob Talbert
Death is a distant rumor to the young. ~Andrew A. Rooney
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. ~Marcel Proust
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. ~Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong.... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them. ~Alexander Bickel
The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us. ~John Williams
I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
There's no such thing as fun for the whole family. ~Jerry Seinfeld
Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
To labor is to pray. ~Motto of the Benedictines
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. ~Doug Larson
Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. ~Ezekiel 16:44
Some defeats are more triumphant than victories. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. ~Proverbs 28:1
"After all, golf is only a game," said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is a kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying. ~P.G. Wodehouse, Order by Golf, 1922
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. ~Pearl S. Buck
Seven days without laughter makes one weak. ~Mort Walker
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words. ~Margaret Mitchell
Live truth instead of professing it. ~Elbert Hubbard
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise. ~Kathleen Turner
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