Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. ~Mark Twain
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ~Thomas Macaulay Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ~Thomas Macaulay
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. ~Franklin P. Jones
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. ~John Herschel
Cheerleaders are angels - we're the only humans who can fly. ~Author Unknown
People who snore always fall asleep first. ~Author Unknown
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. ~Nicolas Chamfort
One cat just leads to another. ~Ernest Hemingway
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again. ~Chinese inscription cited by Thoreau in Walden
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. ~Author Unknown
Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution. ~Edward Somers
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. ~Mark Twain I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. ~Mark Twain
Wisdom begins at the end. ~Daniel Webster
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. ~Frank A. Clark
You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live. ~William Shakespeare
We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss. ~Charles de Lint
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. ~Richard Avedon
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ~Erma Bombeck, I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression
Just remember, if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off. ~Author Unknown
The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. ~Fred Allen
Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. ~Thomas Fuller
Life itself is the proper binge. ~Julia Child
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ~William R. Inge
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