My Dear Friends,
The New Year will be upon us soon! I hope all of you have had a good year. If you haven't, don't worry, it will all be behind you soon. Let me take this opportunity to wish all of you a great year in 2017! May all be Happy and Healthy!
Personally, I have decided that 2017 is going to be a great year for me. :-)
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. - James Thurber
Click Here for the evergreen song by Abba - Happy New Year!
You are the books you read, the movies you watch, the music you listen to, the people you spend time with, the conversations you engage in. choose wisely what you feed your mind. - Unknown
The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward. - Steve Maraboli
When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts. - Buddha
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. - Joseph Campbell
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is alike dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. - Paramahansa Yogananda
There is no dishonour in losing the race. There is only dishonour in not racing because you are afraid to lose. - Unknown
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. - George MacDonald
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world’s torrent. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sometimes, the words said by the mouth are not the thoughts said by the heart. - Unknown
Learn to see people for what they are, not who you want them to be. - Unknown
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. - Abraham Lincoln
The best boss is the one who bosses the least. - Ralph Moody
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Dear Algebra:
Please stop asking us to find your X.
She's never coming back, and don't ask Y. - Unknown
I took a cab the other day and the driver said to me, "I love my job, I own this car. I've got my own business, I'm my own boss, and NO ONE tells me what to do ..."
I said, "Turn left here." - Aunty Acid
An older man, not in the best physical condition, asked the trainer in the gym, “I want to impress a beautiful young girl. Which machine should I use?”
The trainer replied, “Use the ATM machine outside!”
Why are scientists now using lawyers in laboratory experiments instead of rats? Three reasons: (1) lawyers are more plentiful than rats, (2) there is no danger the scientists will become attached to the lawyers, and (3) there are some things rats just won't do.
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Outside a Muffler Shop:
No appointment necessary. We hear you coming.
In a London department store:
Bargain basement upstairs.
In the window of a dry cleaner's:
Same day dry cleaning – all garments ready in 48 hours.
Outside a furniture shop:
Our motto: We promise you the lowest prices and workmanship.
In a dental office:
Be true to your teeth or they will be false to you.
Spotted in a safari park:
Elephant please stay in your car.
Sign in a picture shop:
Let us put you in the picture and frame you.
Notice in restaurant:
Our cutlery is not medicine so please do not take it after meals.
Message on a leaflet:
If you cannot read, this leaflet will tell you how to get lessons.
Sign on a newly painted bench:
Wet paint – watch it or wear it.
Sign in London pizza parlour:
Open 24 hours – except 2 am. – 8 am.
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. - Muhammad Ali
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself. - Niccolo Machiavelli
From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence. - Confucius
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. - Henry David
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. - Kurt Vonnegut
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It's actually not too difficult to get a dog to bring a ball back to you once you learn how. It helps to start by understanding that dogs are just trying to teach you to play their game while you're trying to teach them yours. Who ends up training whom first depends on you. Keep in mind that dogs are naturals as animal trainers, while humans aren't, so you'd better be on your toes when you start to try out "fetch" with a new dog. - Patricia McConnel
Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humour can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day. - Ann Landers
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world. - C.S. Lewis
There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers. - Melvin Belli
Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches. - Evan Esar
I retired early for health reasons – my company was sick of me and I was sick of them. - Unknown
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. - Frank Sinatra
The best thing about the good old days was that I wasn’t good and I wasn’t old. - Unknown
Marriage: I think my wife fell in love with annoying me. - Joshua Michael Levinson
If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters. - Unknown
Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer. - Ellen DeGeneres
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others. - Diogenes
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Miracle Oil. I prefer fresh coconuts though. Love them. I am sure I will be eating coconuts whenever I can.
The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. - Gustave le Bon
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things work. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. - Confucius
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It is better to drink the wine of industry from an earthen cup, than the wine of indolence from a silver tankard. - William Scott Downey
The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows. - Thomas M. Disch
If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly. - Steve Maraboli
Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free. - Robert Tew
You can’t control who knocks at your door but you can control who you let in. - Unknown
No one travels so high as he who knows not where he is going. - Oliver Cromwell
The creation of a thousand forests lies in one acorn. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not who you think I am. You are what you think I am. - Unknown
Arriving at one point is the starting point to another. - John Dewey
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What is a Pun?
A Pun is a joke or type of wordplay in which similar senses or sounds of two words or phrases, or different senses of the same word, are deliberately confused.
A prisoner's favorite punctuation mark is the period. It marks the end of his sentence. - Unknown
A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months. - Unknown
A will is a dead giveaway. - Unknown
Cartoonist found dead in home. Details are sketchy. - Unknown
Constipated People Don't Give a crap. - Unknown
Deafness is getting to be quite a problem for me lately. I never thought I'd hear myself say that. - Unknown
Does the little mermaid wear an algebra? - Unknown
Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication. - Unknown
Did you hear about the cross eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils? - Unknown
Don’t join dangerous cults: practice safe sects. - Unknown
England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool. - Unknown
Generally speaking, you aren’t learning much when your lips are moving. - Unknown
He dropped a computer on his toes and had megahertz. - Unknown
He had a photographic memory which was never developed. - Unknown
I got a job at a bakery because I kneaded dough. - Unknown
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Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of its possibilities. This leads immediately in his mind to the prediction of new phenomena which may one day be verified by experiment. - Henri Poincaré
Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing. - Brian L. Weiss
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton
Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a take-off. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here. - Donald Trump
Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back. - Mitch Albom
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Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash. - Jerry Seinfeld
I question the value of name tags as an aid to future identification. I have approached too many people who have spent the entire evening talking to my left bosom. I always have the insane desire to name the other one. - Erma Bombeck
Some mornings I just feel like breaking the damn alarm but then one thing always stops me. I paid hundreds of dollars to buy my phone. - Job Might
There are 17 more shopping days until Christmas. So, guys, that means 16 more days till we start shopping, right? - Conan O’Brien
People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it’s because you’re sweating to death. - Jessica Simpson
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it. - Clarence Darrow
A lie is a lie... unless your friends and family are in on it. Then it's a "commonly held belief." - Christopher Titus
If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me. - Bobcat Goldthwait
Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up. - Evelyn Hendrickson
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions. - Robert Brault
I have two problems with hard labour: hard and labour. - Jarod Kintz
What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth? - Jocelyn Murray
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Good news for some, bad news for others, immaterial for most.
A new study suggests that people who don’t drink alcohol are more likely to die young.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/abstaining-from-alcohol-significantly-shortens-life-2013-12?IR=T&utm_content=buffere012c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer&r=US&IR=T
On the other hand, if you are someone who drinks alcohol regularly, you need to read this ...
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/03/12/if-youre-someone-who-drinks-alcohol-regularly-you-need-to-read-this/
And also this...
8 warning signs of a high-functioning alcoholic.
https://www.davidwolfe.com/8-warning-signs-high-functioning-alcoholic/
At the end of the day, moderation is the word - in all things.
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. - Mark Twain
You cannot force someone to comprehend a message that they are not ready to receive. Still, you must never underestimate the power of planting a seed. - Unknown
Clutter is not just physical stuff. It’s old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self. - Eleanor Brownn
Sometimes, giving someone a second chance is like giving them an extra bullet for their gun, because they missed you the first time. - Unknown
There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do. - Derek Jeter
You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. - Richard Branson
It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out: It’s the pebble in your shoe. - Muhammad Ali
Surrender becomes easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences. - Eckhart Tolle
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. - Nikos Kazantzakis
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. - Horace Mann
The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next. - Mark Twain
It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again. - Patrick Ness
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He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him. - Charles Dickens
However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary. - Henri Bergson
I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh. - Maya Angelou
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. - Herman Melville
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. - Audrey Hepburn
I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me. - Max Beerbohm
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. - Billy Joel
I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous. - Francois Rabelais
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. - Joseph Addison
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour. - Charles Dickens
It is a good thing to laugh, at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. - John Dryden
It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world. - Richard Steele
Everyone can be great because anyone can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't even have to make your subject and verb agree to serve ... You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. - Martin Luther King
I know not what I appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton
I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. - Nicholas Sparks
Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. - Miguel Angel Ruiz
Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren’t, we should behave as though we are – cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes. - Maya Angelou
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I love women, but I feel like you can’t trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog’s name. Then I said, ‘Does he bite?’ She said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?’ Liar. - Demetri Martin
When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps; when he says perhaps, he means no; when he says no, he is no diplomat. - Vernon K. McLellan
All right, brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you, but let's just get me through this, and I can get back to killing you with beer. - Homer
Love thy neighbour – and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. - Mae West
Some taxpayers close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths, but all pay through the nose. - Evan Esar
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done. - Peter Ustinov
Sex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex. - Woody Allen
There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure. - Moss Hart
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once. - Frank A. Clark
The uglier a man's legs are the better he plays golf. It's almost a law. - H. G. Wells
We kill people who kill people because killing people is wrong. - Unknown
I keep eating for fear I will be hungry. - Mason Cooley
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People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore. Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. Life is available only in the present. - Thich Nhat Hanh
You are not the only one that makes mistakes or say things that you regret. No matter what people tell you, we’re all just figuring out this life together. - Anthony Gucciardi
The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think. - Gregory Bateson
There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on. - Eric Hoffer
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. - Seneca
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. - Mary Manin Morrissey
If something doesn't go your way, it's probably because you didn't work that hard at it. - Chris Simms
The good composer is slowly discovered; the bad composer is slowly found out. - Ernest Newman
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. - Donald Miller
Sometimes, the only way to find yourself is to get completely lost. - Unknown
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. - Janos Arnay
And in today already walks tomorrow. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Quotes by Experts, later proved terribly wrong.
Aeroplanes are interesting toys but are of no military value. - Maréchal Ferdinand Foch, 1911
The Edsel is here to stay. - Henry Ford II, 1957
The Titanic is well able to withstand almost any exterior damage and could keep afloat indefinitely after being struck. - P. Franklin, Vice President, International Mercantile Marine, April 15th 1912
I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed. - Mahatma Gandhi, 1940
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. - Dr. W. C. Heuper, National Cancer Institute, 1954
Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of axphyxia. - Professor Dionysus Lardner, 1830
Nuclear powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years. - Alex Lewyt, vacuum cleaner manufacturer, 1957
Inventions reached their limit long ago and I see no hope for further development. - Julius Sextus Frontinus, prominent Roman engineer (c. 40-103 AD)
640K ought to be enough for anybody. - Bill Gates, 1981
The machine gun is a much overrated weapon; two per battalion is more than sufficient. - General Douglas Haig, 1915
I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning. - Lord Kelvin, President of Royal Society, 1890
X-Rays will prove to be a hoax. - Lord Kelvin, President of Royal Society, 1895
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. - Lord Kelvin, President of Royal Society, 1896
Radio has no future. - Lord Kelvin, President of Royal Society, 1898
This is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives. - Admiral William D. Leahy, on the atomic bomb, 1945
This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but the sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, not the earth. - Martin Luther, 1540
I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogma. - Professor Ernst Mach (as in speed-of-sound measurement), 1913
The Internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996. - Robert Metcalfe, internet inventor (date unknown)
There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has run out is a completely unscientific Utopian dream, a childish bug-a-boo. Nature has introduced a few fool-proof devices into the great majority of elements that constitute the bulk of the world, and they have no energy to give up in the process of disintegration. - Robert Millikan, Nobel prize winner in physics, 1920
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In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; it’s the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future. - Jodi Picoult
It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. - Nicholas Sparks
If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm – but that’s a lie … That way lies stagnation, mediocrity. - Vincent van Gogh
If the individual is narrowly concentrated on the goal, to the exclusion of other relevant aspects of the problem situation, he is often unable to achieve a solution. The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work. - Mary Henle
If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you'll have a wonderful time doing it. - Eleanor Roosevelt
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If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. - Lenny Bruce
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you got two new people. Maybe that means – hell, it's complicated. - John Steinbeck
Some McDonald's restaurants are taking reservations on Valentine's Day. They are getting a lot of tables for one. - Conan O’Brien
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife. - Rodney Dangerfield
A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself. - Henry P. Brougham
We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit. - David Suzuki
I love it when I buy a bag of air and the company is nice enough to put some chips in. - Unknown
The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more. - Wilson Mizener
Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it. - Unknown
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell
I don’t know the question, but sex is definitely the answer. - Woody Allen
A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future. - Coco Chanel
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Everyone is Obsessed with Happiness and It’s Making us Miserable. Here’s Why!
Mark DeNicola
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8 Mental Shifts to Help Trigger Success and Happiness.
Mark DeNicola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDeeuoRDhE0
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Beauty: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. - Ambrose Bierce
Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt. - Unknown
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. - Oliver Herford
Chemicals: noxious substances from which modern foods are made. - Unknown
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. - Ambrose Bierce
Compromise: such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. - Ambrose Bierce
Custard: a detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. - Ambrose Bierce
Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty visions sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce
Cynic: a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde
Democracy: the state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it. - Benjamin Lichtenberg
Destiny: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. - Ambrose Bierce
Diplomacy: the patriotic art of lying for one's country. - Ambrose Bierce
Education: that which reveals to the wise and conceals from the stupid the vast limits of their knowledge - Mark Twain
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. - Mark Twain
Egotist: a person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. - Ambrose Bierce
