8.13.2004

May 04 2004

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
- Plato

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
- Jean Cocteau

May 27 2004

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
- George Washington

For death is no more then a turning of us over from time to eternity.
- William Penn

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
- Budda

June 01 2004

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
- Margaret Mead

It is easier to stay out than get out.
- Mark Twain

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
- Cicero

June 08 2004

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What was hard to endure is sweet to recall.
- Proverb

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
- Benjamin Franklin

June 14 2004

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
- Thomas Edison

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
- Demosthenes

Oh, we all get run over once in our lives.
But one must pick oneself up again and behave as if it were nothing.
- Henrik Ibsen

June 18 2004

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- Yiddish proverb

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
- Eleanor Hamilton

In summer, the song sings itself.
- William Carlos Williams

June 23 2004

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
- Tallulah Bankhead

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
- James Branch Cabell

Nothing causes self-delusion quite so readily as power.
- Liu Binyan

June 26 2004

Voters want a fraud they can believe in.
- William Durst

He who lives far from his neighbors may safely praise himself.
- Erasmus

June 28 2004

Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
- Sarah Orne Jewett

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
- Helen Keller

Forget injuries, never forget kindness.
- Confucius

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