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Laugh and the world laughs with you

  Image created by ChatGPT Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. - Anthony Burgess To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. - Joan Klempner If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. - Dale Carnegie Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. - Thomas Jefferson Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. - Soren Kierkegaard Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. - Mahatma Gandhi Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. - Floyd Dell Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. - Hippocrates, Decorum I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinio...

Birds sing after a storm

  Rose Kennedy Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? --Rose Kennedy No wise man ever wished to be younger. --Jonathan Swift You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. --Abraham Lincoln The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. --Socrates Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. --Anthony Burgess This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. --Ralph Waldo Emerson That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election. --Will Rogers If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it. --Joyce Carol Oates I am not young enough...

10 quotes for today

Oscar Wilde. Photo: Google Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. - Henry David Thoreau I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. - Anthony Burgess Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. - Bill Gates Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. - Charles Dickens Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. - Plato Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. - Carol Burnett If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. - Norman Douglas