The first step is you have to say that you can.
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others
Bertrand Russell
Drink nothing with out seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Proverb
Communism is a cow of many; well milked and badly fed.
A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.
Kurt Vonnegut
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.
Swedish Proverb
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them
When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.
Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live.
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
Patience is the key to paradise.
If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
He that falls by himself never cries.
Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again.
Jane Austen
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
George Bernard Shaw
Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.
It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies.
Yiddish Proverb
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep.
The heart is half a prophet.
The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.
If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.
In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.
Three removes are as bad as a fire
Benjamin Franklin
God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!
Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.
happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if you just remember to turn on the lights
J.K. Rowling
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