None are so blind as those who will not see. ~Author Unknown
It ain't nothin' till I call it. ~Bill Klem, umpire
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. ~Alan Simpson
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ~Thomas Hardy
Of course the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws are written by staff tax nerds who can put pretty much any wording they want in there. I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U.S. Tax Code, you'd find at least one sex scene ("'Yes, yes, YES!' moaned Vanessa as Lance, his taut body moist with moisture, again and again depreciated her adjusted gross rate of annualized fiscal debenture"). ~Dave Barry
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. ~H.L. Mencken
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. ~Samuel Lover
The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec. ~Marcus Dolengo
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore
Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. ~Helen Rowland
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. ~Denis Waitley
It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on! ~Author Unknown
Every uniform corrupts one's character. ~Max Frisch
Renew your passions daily. ~Terri Guillemets
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. ~Bertolt Brecht
In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse. ~Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One, 1948
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. ~James Russell Lowell
History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened. ~Earnest Albert Hooten, The Twilight of Man
Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life. ~Robert James Waller
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