To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

Source Unknown

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

James Hilton

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times.There is no primary or authoritative source for this in Twain's known writings or speeches.

Mark Twain, attibuted

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

Benjamin F. Wade

O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

Mark Twain

I never talk back. I listen and always remember your every word, so come pen or mouse, never forget that I will treasure your thoughts forever. Yours truly, Paper.

L.M. Fields

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Adlai Stevenson

The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gerhard Gschwandtner

Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

Lord Chesterfield

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Abraham Lincoln

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

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