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The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. ~Helen Rowland
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football. ~Anthony Burgess
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness
The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind. ~H.L. Mencken, Prejudices, Fourth Series, 1924
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark
In the realist you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable. ~Francis Ponge
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. ~Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820
What a man most enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them. ~Brendan Francis
He who doesn't fear death dies only once. ~Giovanni Falcone
I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue. ~Author Unknown
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ~Voltaire
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ~Jules Renard
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. ~Blaise Pascal, translated from French, Lettres Provinciales, XVI, 1656
Man embraces in his makeup all the natural orders; he's a squid, a mollusk, a sucker and a buzzard; sometimes he's a cerebrate. ~Martin H. Fischer
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. ~Alfred Edward Perlman, New York Times, 3 July 1958
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. ~Shakti Gawain
No one ever really dies as long as they took the time to leave us with fond memories. ~Chris Sorensen
