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If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. ~Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld


The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower


Grammar stops at love, and at art. ~Terri Guillemets


Grammar is the grave of letters. ~Elbert Hubbard


But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Gifts," Essays, Second Series, 1844


Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust. ~Author Unknown


There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ~Annie Dillard


Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. ~Lydia M. Child


If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country. ~Author Unknown


Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ~Ramona C. Carroll


The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ~Eric Hoffer


You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do. ~Author Unknown


Those who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way. ~George J.W. Goodman, The Money Game


Man - a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. ~Alexander Hamilton


Don't water your weeds. ~Proverb


It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.... The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. ~Winston Churchill, Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930


You always pass failure on your way to success. ~Mickey Rooney


Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. ~Jim Murray


Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. ~Mark Twain


Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. ~Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal