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We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed. ~Michel de Montaigne We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed. ~Michel de Montaigne


The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. ~Author Unknown


Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back. ~Gwyn Thomas


Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb


If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, e.g., with no external memory aids, you are not ready to code it. ~Richard Pattis


When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb


Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. ~Carl Zwanzig


There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600


Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles. ~Alfred E. Crawley, The Book of the Ball, 1913 The talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female. ~Henry Tilney


When we look up, it widens our horizons. We see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race. ~Julia Gregson


An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. ~Juvenal, Satires


Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. ~Horace Mann, "Thoughts for a Young Man," 1859


When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. ~Prince Philip


Remember, if you�re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~Allison Gappa Bottke


We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. ~Nick Faldo


There's nothing certain in a man's life except this: That he must lose it. ~Aeschylus, Agamemnon


The analysis of man discloses three chemical elements - a job, a meal and a woman. ~Martin H. Fischer


Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. ~John Stuard Mill


God's glowing covenant. ~Hosea Ballou (rainbow)