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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...

By all means marry...

  By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. --Socrates The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape... --Pablo Picasso It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. --Henry David Thoreau The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. --Cecil B. DeMille Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. --Eleanor Roosevelt We turn not older with years, but newer every day. --Emily Dickinson One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. --Oscar Wilde You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. -...

10 quotes for today - 23 January 2019

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.  - Robert Louis Stevenson  Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.  - George Bernard Shaw  A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.  - Dwight D. Eisenhower Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.  - Thomas Jefferson Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.  - Socrates  Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.  - Benjamin Franklin  Happiness depends upon ourselves.  - Aristotle Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.  - Charles de Montesquieu  Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.  - Jules Renard However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results...

10 quotes for today - 18 January 2019

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. - Publilius Syrus, Maxims Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. - Seneca, Epistles In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. - John Churton Collins Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. - Socrates I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success. - Michael Jordan Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. - Joseph Conrad The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' - Ronald Reagan Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All yo...