Mitchell Burgess
“The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.”
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Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
“Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.”
Arthur Brisbane
“Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.”
Ivy Baker Priest
“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”
Jerry Garcia
“Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.”
Jimmy Carr
“It’s actually easy to tell if your house is haunted: It isn’t. Grow up.”
H. L. Hunt
“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.”
Sue Murphy
“Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that’s how dogs spend their lives.”
John A. Wheeler
“If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day.”
De La Lastra’s Law
“After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been …
Rex Hudler
“Be a fountain, not a drain.”
Phineas Taylor Barnum
“Every crowd has a silver lining.”
Thomas Overbury
“The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato – the best part under ground.”
Sir Ralph Richardson
“Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.”
Robert H. Goddard
“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.”
Marilyn Ferguson
“Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your …
Berton Averre
“To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.”
Robert Newton Peck
“Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.”
Susan Jeffers
“We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.”
Charles Peters
“Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they …
John Tudor
“A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.”
Arab Proverb
“Examine what is said, not him who speaks.”
Rob Sheridan
“Acting like someone you’re not is exactly what it takes to realize you’re capable of more than you ever knew.”
Paulette Bates Alden
“Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.”
William Ernest Hocking
“We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.”
Emile Coue
“Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.”
Charles Luckman
“The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.”
Edward Clarke
“The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.”
John Russell
“Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.”
Nigerian Proverb
“Hold a true friend with both hands.”
Marita Bonner
“She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if …
Henry Cate VII
“The problem with political jokes is they get elected.”
Russell Green
“The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.”
Saint Theresa of Jesus
“There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.”
Margery Allingham
“When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst …
New York City detective
“I’ve gone into hundreds of , and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to …
Francis Marion
“Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree – they bear no fruit.”
John Gray
“It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.”
Robert Morley
“Anyone who works is a fool. I don’t work – I merely inflict myself upon the public.”
George Melton
“Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing – peace is the measure.”