Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.

On life's list of fun things to do, comes in somewhere below sitting in a tub full of scissors.

Jeff Foxworthy

You don't become a chef to become famous.

Eric Ripert

Smile, damn it !! Smile.

Dame Sybil Hathaway

My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.

Melanie Fiona

Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind.

Samuel Johnson

A contemporary man who has not participated intimately in actual work in science is, in my opinion, not a modern man. I believe that this experience in science should come early in the life of all of our pupils.

Edwin H. Land

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work - the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside - the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within - that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again. The first sort of breakage seems to happen quick - the second kind happens almost without your knowing it but is realized suddenly indeed. Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation - the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.http://www.thirteen.org/pressroom/release.php?get=1640

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We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us.

J. Dabney Day

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

Lew Wallace

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Herbert Hoover

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Walter Savage Landor