My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Virginia Woolf

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you don't know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don't know the stories you may be lost in life.

Anon., (Siberian Elder)

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Edmund Spenser

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Al Bernstein

'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.

Sir Walter Scott

I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches. I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.

Pete Seeger, from testimony for

All women dote upon an idle man Although their children need a rich estate. No man has ever lived that had enough Of children's gratitude or woman's love.

William Butler Yeats

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Oscar Wilde

Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.

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