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Just post a quote you associate with the last quote posted.
"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." - Oscar Wilde
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Good idea there, chiya!  "Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children" ~Sam Levenson
"Tiger! Tiger!...my mistake...I thought I was William Blake" ~Ogden Nash
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Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet. Quotation by Bill Cosby
My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough. Noel Coward
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Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is exhausting for children to have to provide explanations over and over again.
- Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Kids say the darnedest things. Art Linkletter
If I cannot drink Bourbon and smoke cigars in heaven than I shall not go. - Mark Twain
Eschew obfuscation!
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Investigator wrote:Kids say the darnedest things... ...which is why children should be seen and not heard.
TIMING TOAST: There's an art of knowing when, never try to guess. Toast until it smokes and then, twenty seconds less. -- Piet Hein
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...which is why children should be seen and not heard.Speak roughly to your little boy, And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases.
"What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
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"Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense." ~ Mock Turtle
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Quote:One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
. . . Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky, 1872
All politics is applesauce. ...Will Rogers
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Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
Margaret Mitchell
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Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. Dwight D. Eisenhower
"What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
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Two beer or not two beer? - Homer Simpson
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world - Aristotle
"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so
well that no one would find fault with what he has done." -Cardinal Newmane
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... The World is like an apple whirling silently in space.... ~Alan & Marilyn Bergman (from the song 'The Windmills of your Mind')
"Tiger! Tiger!...my mistake...I thought I was William Blake" ~Ogden Nash
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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
- George Bernard Shaw
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
Arthur C. Clarke
"What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
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Quote:If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
. . . Albert Einstein
All politics is applesauce. ...Will Rogers
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Hope proves man deathless. It is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
-Henry Melvill
Hangguk mal haseyo! Molayo! :)
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You are here for a reason. Don’t struggle to find out why you are here. Just look closer and enjoy the journey. -Deepak Chopra
"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so
well that no one would find fault with what he has done." -Cardinal Newmane
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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
John Lennon
"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon" Suzanne Ertz
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Man proposes, God disposes ~ Some wise fellow, I forgot the name
It is good to rub and polish your mind against that of others.—Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
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53. HE PROPOSES JUST ENDS, AND EMPLOYS THE FAIREST AND PROBABLEST MEANS AND METHODS TO ATTAIN THEM. (WILLIAM PENN - SOME FRUITS OF SOLITUDE, PART II THE WISE MAN)
If I cannot drink Bourbon and smoke cigars in heaven than I shall not go. - Mark Twain
Eschew obfuscation!
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"A man can get DISCOURAGED many times, but he is not a FAILURE until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying" - Deepak Maharaj
'Truth Alone Triumphs' (Satyameva Jayate)
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"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."
--Bill Lyon
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. --Dorothy Parker
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IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED…
…skydiving is not for you.
- slogan
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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"No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one
time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging
well over the brink of failure."- Napoleon Hill
"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so
well that no one would find fault with what he has done." -Cardinal Newmane
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A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~David Brinkley
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The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.
--Harold B. Lee
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. --Dorothy Parker
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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Robert Frost
"What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
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“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” ~James Dean
"Tiger! Tiger!...my mistake...I thought I was William Blake" ~Ogden Nash
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And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.
Sea Fever John Masefield
If I cannot drink Bourbon and smoke cigars in heaven than I shall not go. - Mark Twain
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All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place where the rivers come, thither they return again.
Ecclesiastes 1:7
Hangguk mal haseyo! Molayo! :)
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I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by
- John Masefield
"What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
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There are more stars in the universe than there are particles of sand on Earth
There is no past tense to Love, either you always will or you never did. ....
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fayalso wrote:I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by
- John Masefield
Hmm- Where have I heard that?Like sand through an hour glass, so are the days of our lives. (Day of Our LIves)
If I cannot drink Bourbon and smoke cigars in heaven than I shall not go. - Mark TwainEschew obfuscation!
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