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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. – Mark Twain
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. – Abraham Lincoln
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. – Abraham Lincoln
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. – Abraham Lincoln
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. – Abraham Lincoln
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on? – Peter McWilliams
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace. – Jimi Hendrix
You cannot change your reality if you think someone else is responsible for it. – Gordana Biernat
Epigrams succeed where epics fail. – Persian Proverb
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. – Plato
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. – Herb Caen
The miracle is this--the more we share, the more we have. – Leonard Nimoy
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. – Franklin P. Adams
My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there are praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share. – Rita Mae Brown
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle. – Rita Mae Brown
I finally figured out that the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. – Rita Mae Brown
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. – Rita Mae Brown
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. – Rita Mae Brown
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact. – Willa Cather
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity. – Cesare Lombroso
Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend. – Marian Anderson
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. – Mother Teresa
The more one judges, the less one loves. – Honore' de Balzac
Nothing is stronger than habit. – Ovid
Without music life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. – Albert Einstein
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. – Margaret Thatcher
We would never learn to be patient if there were only joy in the world. – Helen Keller
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive. – Elbert Hubbard
It's time to start living the life you've imagined. – Henry James
It is better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone else. – Marilyn Monroe
We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. – Dorothy Parker
Popularity is neither fame nor greatness. – William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

– Mark Twain

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

– Mark Twain

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

– Abraham Lincoln

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

– Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

– Abraham Lincoln

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

– Abraham Lincoln