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2008-11-29T21:40:00.000-06:00

Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. - George Will

2008-10-08T21:05:00.001-05:00

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. - Andre Maurois

2008-10-08T21:02:00.000-05:00

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. - Andre Maurois

2008-10-07T20:35:00.000-05:00

I have had dreams, and I've had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams. - Jonas Salk

2008-09-26T20:47:00.001-05:00

One does not sell the land people walk on. - Crazy Horse

2008-08-06T20:27:00.001-05:00

Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times. - Lou Holtz

2008-08-01T20:12:00.001-05:00

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! - Sir Walter Scott

2008-07-14T20:29:00.001-05:00

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. - J. R. R. Tolkien

2008-07-07T19:58:00.001-05:00

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. - Paul Eldridge

2008-06-30T20:50:00.001-05:00

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2008-06-19T20:57:00.001-05:00

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. - John Ruskin

2008-06-18T20:03:00.001-05:00

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison

2008-05-29T20:45:00.001-05:00

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - Gen. George S. Patton

2008-05-28T20:09:00.001-05:00

Our patience will achieve more than our force. - Edmund Burke

2008-05-27T20:01:00.001-05:00

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. - Samuel Johnson

2008-05-22T20:14:00.000-05:00

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2008-05-12T21:11:00.001-05:00

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician. - Henry Miller

2008-05-12T21:09:00.000-05:00

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician. - Henry Miller

2008-05-08T20:18:00.001-05:00

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

2008-05-05T20:09:00.001-05:00

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand. He's fit for public authority. - Sophocles

2008-05-05T20:05:00.001-05:00

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand. He's fit for public authority. - Sophocles

2008-05-05T20:03:00.001-05:00

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand. He's fit for public authority. - Sophocles

2008-05-05T20:01:00.001-05:00

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand. He's fit for public authority. - Sophocles

2008-05-01T20:05:00.001-05:00

Energy and persistence conquer all things. - Benjamin Franklin

2008-04-21T20:10:00.001-05:00

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. - Josh Billings

2008-04-14T20:03:00.001-05:00

Happiness...not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour. - Walt Whitman

2008-04-02T22:10:00.001-05:00

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. - Joaquin Setanti

2008-03-21T20:02:00.001-05:00

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. - John Donne

2008-03-11T20:21:00.000-05:00

It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked. - Warren Buffett

2008-02-18T20:40:00.001-06:00

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it. - Mark Twain

2008-02-04T20:09:00.001-06:00

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. - Mark Twain

2008-01-31T20:02:00.001-06:00

To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions. - William James

2008-01-22T20:33:00.001-06:00

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

2008-01-14T21:12:00.001-06:00

Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold. - Chinese proverb

2008-01-08T20:50:00.001-06:00

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

2007-12-27T20:36:00.000-06:00

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive. - William F. Buckley, Jr.

2007-12-20T20:06:00.001-06:00

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. - Paul Eldridge

2007-12-18T20:02:00.001-06:00

It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong. - Warren Buffett

2007-12-15T20:01:00.001-06:00

The soldier prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. - Douglas MacArthur

2007-12-13T17:07:00.001-06:00

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2007-12-08T20:50:00.001-06:00

Auto racing, bull fighting and mountain climbing are the only real sports - all others are games. - Ernest Hemingway

2007-11-22T21:13:00.001-06:00

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues. - Cicero

2007-11-16T21:21:00.001-06:00

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. - Aldous Huxley

2007-11-12T20:39:00.001-06:00

I think, therefore, I am. - Descartes

2007-10-29T21:35:00.001-05:00

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. - Eric Hoffer

2007-10-23T20:12:00.001-05:00

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

2007-10-12T20:09:00.001-05:00

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing. - Albert Schweitzer

2007-10-11T20:02:00.000-05:00

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. - Mark Twain

2007-10-01T20:04:00.000-05:00

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. - George Santayana

2007-09-19T20:24:00.001-05:00

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. - Henry Kissinger

On politics

2007-09-17T22:01:00.000-05:00

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. Stephen Vincent Benet

2007-09-11T20:04:00.001-05:00

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers

2007-09-10T20:53:00.001-05:00

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. - Cary Grant

2007-09-04T20:38:00.000-05:00

Paranoia means having all the facts. - William S. Burroughs

2007-08-31T21:20:00.001-05:00

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

2007-08-29T20:19:00.001-05:00

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

2007-08-28T20:17:00.001-05:00

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. - Evelyn Waugh

2007-08-15T20:02:00.001-05:00

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

2007-08-09T20:25:00.001-05:00

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as robust - George Orwell

2007-07-16T20:20:00.001-05:00

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. - Booker T. Washington

2007-07-13T21:17:00.001-05:00

Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease. - Nicholas Boileau

2007-07-10T20:40:00.000-05:00

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. - Demosthenes

2007-07-10T20:39:00.001-05:00

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. - John Dryden

2007-06-28T20:49:00.001-05:00

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2007-06-28T20:43:00.001-05:00

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. - Benjamin Franklin

2007-06-26T20:41:00.001-05:00

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.A�- Mac McCleary

2007-06-12T21:26:00.000-05:00

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. - Confucius

2007-06-06T20:17:00.001-05:00

Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. - Albert Einstein

2007-06-05T20:37:00.001-05:00

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

2007-05-29T20:58:00.001-05:00

Be awful nice to 'em going up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down. - Jimmy Durante

2007-05-21T20:12:00.001-05:00

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - William Shakespeare

2007-05-14T21:02:00.000-05:00

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. - Abraham Lincoln

2007-05-12T21:26:00.001-05:00

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. - Emily Dickinson

2007-05-07T20:14:00.001-05:00

No matter how long you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. - Turkish proverb

2007-04-30T20:15:00.001-05:00

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser

2007-04-24T21:02:00.001-05:00

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. - Paul Theroux

2007-04-17T20:02:00.001-05:00

You can observe a lot by just watching. - Yogi Berra

2007-04-16T20:01:00.001-05:00

You can observe a lot by just watching. - Yogi Berra

2007-04-10T20:04:00.001-05:00

Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing. - Thomas Fuller

2007-03-27T21:42:00.001-05:00

Never cut what you can untie- Joseph Joubert

2007-03-22T20:01:00.001-05:00

But a man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison. - Truman Capote

2007-03-16T20:59:00.001-05:00

You can do anything - but not everything. - David Allen

2007-03-09T21:24:00.001-06:00

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. - Jesse Jackson

2007-03-07T20:07:00.001-06:00

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. - Robert Heinlein

2007-02-28T00:50:00.000-06:00

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

2007-02-27T20:32:00.000-06:00

My work is a game, a very serious game. - M. C. Escher

2007-02-16T20:24:00.000-06:00

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. - Ernest Hemingway

2007-02-13T20:31:00.000-06:00

Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2007-02-12T20:03:00.000-06:00

There is always a better way. - Thomas Edison

2007-02-07T20:58:00.000-06:00

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2007-02-05T20:04:00.000-06:00

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. - Andre Maurois

2007-01-31T20:04:00.000-06:00

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. - Demosthenes

2007-01-27T20:03:00.000-06:00

He who does not thank for little will not thank for much. - Estonian Proverb

2007-01-26T20:08:00.000-06:00

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. - Thomas Jefferson

2007-01-16T21:06:00.000-06:00

There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism. - Henry George

2007-01-12T20:30:00.000-06:00

One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese proverb

2007-01-11T20:02:00.000-06:00

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. - Tom Clancy

2007-01-10T21:21:00.000-06:00

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. - Benjamin Franklin

2006-12-20T20:04:00.000-06:00

They who lose today may win tomorrow. - Cervantes

2006-12-19T20:02:00.000-06:00

Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far. - Theodore Roosevelt