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"When you win, nothing hurts." *Joe Namath*

"Nobody, but nobody / Can make it out here alone."
*Maya Angelou*

"Never keep up with the Joneses.
Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
*Quentin Crisp*

"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business
and your business in your heart."
*Thomas Watson, Sr.*

"When your life is filled with the desire to see
the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens:
ordinary life becomes extraordinary,
and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul!"
*Rabbi Harold Kushner*

"He who laughs, lasts." *Mary Pettibone Poole*

"Don't worry about the future,
The present is all thou hast,
The future will soon be present,
And the present will soon be past."

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
*Albert Einstein*

"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."
*Bern Williams*

"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched."
*George Jean Nathan*

"The only people you should want to "get even" with
are those who have helped you." *Connie Francis*

"He who knows others is wise; / He knows himself is enlightened."
*Lao-Tzu*

"It doesn't matter who you are or where you've come from. You
can achieve great things and make a difference in this world.
You only need to believe in yourself enough, and you do that
by reaching your goals one step at a time !"
*Mark Llewhellin*

"It's always too early to quit." *Norman Vincent Peale*

"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."
*Albert Einstein*

"Facing it - always facing it - that's the way to get through. Face it!"
*Joseph Conrad*

"The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature
which distinguishes men from animals."
*Sir William Osler*

"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
*Bernard Berenson*

"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck."
*Katharine Hepburn*

"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
*Howard W. Newton*

"By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped;
by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou;
encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it."
*Joseph Collins*

"Give to the world the best you have
and the best will come back to you." *Madeline Bridges*

{Always remember the 3 D's...}
"Decisions determine destiny." *Frederick Speakman*

"There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively,
between what you contribute and what you get out of this world."
*Oscar Hammerstein II*

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
*George Bernard Shaw*

"Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you."
*Frank Tyger*

"You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, "My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!"
*Dave Barry*

"I am responsible for my own well-being, my own happiness.
The choices and decisions I make regarding my life
directly influences the quality of my days."
*Kathleen Andrus*

"You have first an instinct, then an opinion,
then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit.
Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
*Ralph Waldo Emerson*

"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right,
it's ended up not being right." *Mario Cuomo*

"A man's mind, stretched by a new idea,
can never go back to its original dimension."
*Oliver Wendell Holmes*

"Good timber does not grow with ease;
the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees."
*J. Willard Marriott*

"The mind is it's own place, and in it self can make a Heav'n of Hell,
and a Hell of Heav'n." *John Molton*

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,
life is a broken winged bird that can not fly." *Langston Hughes*

"Regret for things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do, that is inconsolable." *Sidney J. Harris*

"It is all right to hold a conversation
but you should let go of it now and then."
*Richard Armour*

"Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it." *Jack Nichols*

"One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories." *Rebecca Falls*

"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention." *Richard Moss*

HUH?????

"It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another." *George Bush*

"Please provide the date of your death." ( from an IRS letter )

"We are sorry to announce that Mr Albert Brown has been quite unwell, owing to his recent death, and is taking a short holiday to recover."
*Parish Magazine*

"Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a --it is different from the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation." *Dan Quayle*

"The word "genius" isn't applicable in football.
A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." *Joe Theisman*

"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything." *Ivana Trump*

"The road of good intentions is paved with Hell." *Spencer Ante*

"If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
*Brooke Shields*
(Wasn't that one of the lines from her TV show: 'Suddenly Stupid?')

"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas."
*Keppel Enderbery*

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." *Samuel Goldwyn*

"It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago..." *Dan Quayle*
>> Will someone please insert his other foot into his mouth!
Maybe then he will shut up! <<

"How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?" *Al Gore* (On Y2K)

"The people in the Navy look on motherhood as being compatible with being a woman." *Rear Admiral James R. Hogg* (Aptly named!)

"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."
*Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina*
(Okie Dokie!)

"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record."
*Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman*

***Ok, that's enough of that! These are starting to scare me!!!***

"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed."
*Michael Pritchard*

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
*Reinhold Niebuhr*

"You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'" *George Bernard Shaw*

"Where there is love there is life." *Mahatma Gandhi*

"We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior." *Henry Miller*

* "The most profitless thing to manufacture is an excuse." *

* "There are three ways to get something done:
Do it yourself, hire someone to do it,
or forbid your children to do it." *

"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously.
The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous."
*Margaret Fontey*

"My father gave me these hints on speech-making:
Be sincere...be brief...be seated."
*James Roosevelt*

"The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities." *Cesare Pavese*

"A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself." *Axel Munthe*

"The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent,
but in failing to use that one talent." *Edgar Watson Howe*

"Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is." *Margaret Mitchell*

"Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality."
*Alan Coren*

"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
*Nathaniel Hawthorne*

"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do
with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." *Will Rogers*

"Everything you see I owe to spaghetti." *Sophia Loren*
(Yeah, but what does that say about Chef Boyardee???)

"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway." *John Wayne*

"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." *Woody Allen*

"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists." *G.K. Chesterton*

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people."
*Arthur Schopenhauer*

"Some guy hit my fender, and I told him 'Be fruitful and multiply,'
but not in those words." *Woody Allen*

"When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die." *Eleanor Roosevelt*

"Common sense is not so common." *Voltaire*

"Creativity is a drug I cannot live without." *Cecil B. Demille*

"When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half." *Gracie Allen*

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." *Ernest Hemingway*

"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your hearts desire.
The other is to gain it." *George Bernard Shaw*

"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
*Benjamin Disraeli*

"The best way to keep your word is to not give it." *Napoleon Bonaparte*

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."
*Albert Einstein*

"It is only when doing my work that I feel truly alive."
*Federico Fellini*

"Act as if it were impossible to fail." *Dorothea Brande*

"No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap." *Carrie Snow*

"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it." *William James*

"Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."
*Lady Bird Johnson*

"We never do anything well
till we cease to think about the manner of doing it."
*William Hazlitt*

"Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy."
*Dale Carnegie*

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis."
*Margaret Bonnano*

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
*Groucho Marx*

Here's 2 of my favorites from DELBERT:

When confronted by a difficult problem,
you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question,
"How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"

Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky,
and I thought to myself,
where the heck is the ceiling? : )

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."
*Elbert Hubbard*

"The impossible is often the untried."
*Jim Goodwin*

"Enjoy the little things in life,
for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
*Antonio Smith*

"Trust your hunches.
They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."
*Dr. Joyce Brothers*

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment.
It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
*Dan Quayle*

"Everyday I beat my own previous record for number
of consecutive days I've stayed alive." *George Carlin*

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." *Carl Rogers*

"The deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated."
*William James*

"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."
*Mark Twain*

"We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't."
*Frank A. Clark*

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It was there all the time." *Anna Freud*

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
*Franklin Delano Roosevelt*

"Great things are accomplished by talented people
who believe they will accomplish them." *Warren Bennis*

"To dance is to smile through your body. To sing is to smile through your soul.
To do both at the same time is sheer Heaven..."
*Susan A. Peterson*

*Many people will walk in and out of your life,
But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.*

*To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.*

*He who loses money, loses much;
He who loses a friend, loses much more;
He who loses faith, loses all.*