| Date |
Thought |
Author |
Author's
Title |
01/01 |
Happy New Year! |
Factel Staff |
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01/02 |
A New Years resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. |
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01/03 |
"Example isn't another way to teach, it's the only way to teach." |
Albert Einstein |
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01/04 |
"People are getting smarter nowadays, they're letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide." |
Will Rogers |
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01/05 |
"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them." |
Abraham Lincoln |
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01/06 |
"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." |
Marshall McLuhan |
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01/07 |
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." |
Issac Asimov |
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01/08 |
"A man's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink." |
W.C. Fields |
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01/09 |
"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct." |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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01/10 |
"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." |
George Bernard Shaw |
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01/11 |
"Some folks are wise and some otherwise." |
Josh Billings |
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01/12 |
"The only time my wife and I had a simultaneous orgasm was when the judge signed the divorce papers." |
Woody Allen |
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01/13 |
"Coffee isn't my cup of tea." |
Samuel Goldwyn |
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01/14 |
"Adversity is the first path to truth." |
Lord Byron |
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01/15 |
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." |
Abraham Lincoln |
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01/16 |
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work .... I want to acheive it through not dying." |
Woody Allen |
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01/17 |
"Reason should direct, and appetite obey." |
Cicero |
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01/18 |
"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." |
Confucius |
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01/19 |
"Give all to love; obey thy heart." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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01/20 |
"In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best." |
Euripides |
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01/21 |
"A slip of the foot you may soon get over, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over." |
Benjamin Franklin |
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01/22 |
"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work." |
Robert Frost |
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01/23 |
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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01/24 |
"Nothing is worth more than this day." |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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01/25 |
"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years." |
Samuel Goldwyn |
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01/26 |
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it." |
Thomas Jefferson |
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01/27 |
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." |
John F. Kennedy |
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01/28 |
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." |
Martin Luther King |
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01/29 |
"He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know." |
Lao-tzu |
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01/30 |
"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon." |
Groucho Marx |
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01/31 |
"Follow your inclinations, with due regard for the policeman around the corner." |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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02/01 |
"Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends." |
H.L. Mencken |
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02/02 |
"In heaven all the interesting people are missing." |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
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02/03 |
"I say, time wounds all heels." |
John Lennon |
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02/04 |
"Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves." |
Dorothy Parker |
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02/05 |
"Speak when you are angry -- and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret." |
Lawrence J. Peter |
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02/06 |
"Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil." |
Plato |
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02/07 |
"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born." |
Ronald Reagan |
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02/08 |
"The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it." |
Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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02/09 |
"A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
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02/10 |
"Be sincere, be brief, be seated." |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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02/11 |
"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all." |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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02/12 |
"I got kicked out of ballet because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine." |
Rita Rudner |
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02/13 |
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." |
Bertrand Russell |
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02/14 |
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body." |
Seneca |
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02/15 |
"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth." |
George Bernard Shaw |
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02/16 |
"Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." |
Socrates |
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02/17 |
"Fortune helps the brave." |
Terence |
185 BC - 159 BC |
02/18 |
"Be true to your word, your work, and your friend." |
Henry David Thoreau |
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02/19 |
"Little by little, one travels far." |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
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02/20 |
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." |
Mark Twain |
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02/21 |
"I think that when you invite people to your home you invite them to yourself." |
Oprah Winfrey |
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02/22 |
"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." |
Voltaire |
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02/23 |
"I dig Hannibal. Hannibal had real guts. He rode elephants into Cartilage." |
Mike Tyson |
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02/24 |
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." |
Aesop |
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02/25 |
"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the enviornment." |
Ansel Adams |
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02/26 |
"The end of labor is to gain leisure." |
Aristotle |
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02/27 |
"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me." |
Fred Allen |
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02/28 |
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis." |
Dante Alighieri |
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02/29 |
"A memorandum is not written to inform the reader but to protect the writer." |
Dean Acheson |
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03/01 |
"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any." |
Fred Astaire |
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03/02 |
"It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." |
Hank Aaron |
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03/03 |
"Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library." |
Henri Frederic Amiel |
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03/04 |
"Friends are born, not made." |
Henry B. Adams |
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03/05 |
"Life is pleasant, death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." |
Isaac Asimov |
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03/06 |
"For true success, ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?" |
James Allen |
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03/07 |
"Don't talk about what you have done or what you're going to do." |
Thomas Jefferson |
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03/08 |
"When firearms go, all goes. We need them every hour." |
George Washington |
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03/09 |
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." |
Oscar Wilde |
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03/10 |
"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea." |
John Adams |
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03/11 |
"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly. But the bumble bee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway." |
Mary Kay Ash |
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03/12 |
"How much more grievous are the consequenses of anger than the causes of it." |
Marcus Aurelius |
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03/13 |
"Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating." |
Marian Anderson |
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03/14 |
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." |
Minna Antrim |
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03/15 |
"I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on." |
Muhammad Ali |
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03/16 |
"There are no lazy veteran lion hunters." |
Norman Augustine |
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03/17 |
Two thirds of the earth is covered with water. The other third is covered by auditors from the home office. |
The Master Adjuster |
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03/18 |
"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king." |
St. Augustine |
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03/19 |
"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government." |
Woody Allen |
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03/20 |
"Men are like steel. Whenever they lose their temper, they lose their worth." |
Chuck Norris |
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03/21 |
"Focus on remedies, not faults." |
Jack Nicklaus |
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03/22 |
"If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you." |
Paul Newman |
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03/23 |
"Without deviation progress is not possible." |
Frank Zappa |
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03/24 |
"I can, therefore I am." |
Simone Weil |
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03/25 |
"I think, therefore I am." |
Rene Descartes |
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03/26 |
"I drink, therefore I am." |
W.C. Fields |
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03/27 |
"Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation." |
Edward R. Murrow |
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03/28 |
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws are so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood." |
James Madison |
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03/29 |
"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts." |
Jim Morrison |
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03/30 |
"One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other ninety-nine percent are followers of women." |
John McGraw |
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03/31 |
"Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it." |
Malcolm Muggeridge |
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04/01 |
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. |
Chinese Proverb |
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04/02 |
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique, just like everyone else." |
Margaret Mead |
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04/03 |
"If God wanted us to be brave, why did he give us legs?" |
Marvin Kitman |
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04/04 |
"I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that." |
Dick Gregory |
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04/05 |
"I call architecture frozen music." |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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04/06 |
"The contest for the ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power." |
Daniel Webster |
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04/07 |
"I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet." |
Dennis Waitley |
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04/08 |
"Change before you have to." |
Jack Welch |
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04/09 |
" And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." |
John F. Kennedy |
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04/10 |
"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." |
Orson Welles |
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04/11 |
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
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04/12 |
"I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short." |
Shelly Winters |
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04/13 |
"Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?" |
Steven Wright |
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04/14 |
"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income." |
Plato |
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04/15 |
"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax." |
Albert Einstein |
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04/16 |
"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children." |
Mark Twain |
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04/17 |
"We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities." |
Bill Maher |
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04/18 |
"Everything has its limit. Iron ore cannot be educated into gold." |
Mark Twain |
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04/19 |
"President Bush said the other day the war is not about timetables. It's about winning. Hey, it worked in Florida." |
Jay Leno |
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04/20 |
"I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food." |
W.C. Fields |
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04/21 |
"I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car." |
Steven Wright |
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04/22 |
"I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No'." |
Woody Allen |
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04/23 |
Hobbes: "Do you think there's a God?" Calvin: "Well, SOMEBODY'S out to get me." |
Bill Watterson |
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04/24 |
"The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried." |
Bud Wilkinson |
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04/25 |
"Being a lady is an attitude." |
Chuck Woolery |
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04/26 |
"A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?" |
Jane Wagner |
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04/27 |
"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting." |
Karl Wallenda |
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04/28 |
A good man is hard to find |
Flannery O'Connor |
Book Title |
04/29 |
"A hard man is good to find." |
Mae West |
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04/30 |
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances." |
Martha Washington |
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05/01 |
"When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'" |
Robin Williams |
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05/02 |
"I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming." |
Jimmy Carter |
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05/03 |
"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead." |
Johnny Carson |
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05/04 |
"(He) called me a rapist and a recluse. I'm not a recluse." |
Mike Tyson |
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05/05 |
"You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself." |
Gene Mauch |
Coach |
05/06 |
" A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar." |
H.L. Mencken |
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05/07 |
"After all, tomorrow is another day." |
Margaret Mitchell |
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05/08 |
"Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him." |
Marilyn Monroe |
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05/09 |
"Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head." |
Martin Mull |
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05/10 |
"A good system shortens the road to the goal." |
Orison Swett Marden |
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05/11 |
"It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office." |
Shirley MacLaine |
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05/12 |
"Ya gotta believe! |
Tug McGraw |
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05/13 |
"Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost." |
Martina Navratilova |
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05/14 |
"The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling." |
Douglas William Jerrold |
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05/15 |
"Everybody likes a compliment." |
Abraham Lincoln |
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05/16 |
"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind." |
Bruce Lee |
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05/17 |
"If you hold a cat by the tail you will learn things you cannot learn any other way." |
Mark Twain |
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05/18 |
"The more I see the less I know for sure." |
John Lennon |
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05/19 |
"There is no success without hardship." |
Sophocles |
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05/20 |
"It's not the having, it's the getting." |
Elizabeth Taylor |
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05/21 |
"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog." |
Harry S. Truman |
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05/22 |
Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music." |
George Bernard Shaw |
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05/23 |
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." |
Abraham Lincoln |
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05/24 |
"When I was kidnapped, my parents sprung into action. They rented out my room." |
Woody Allen |
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05/25 |
"The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth." |
Cicero |
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05/26 |
"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles." |
Confucius |
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05/27 |
"Make your life necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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05/28 |
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." |
Benjamin Franklin |
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05/29 |
"Whatever you can do or dream, begin it." |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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05/30 |
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." |
Samuel Goldwyn |
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05/31 |
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." |
Thomas Jefferson |
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06/01 |
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." |
Martin Luther King |
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06/02 |
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." |
Groucho Marx |
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06/03 |
"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice |
H.L. Mencken |
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06/04 |
"Only sick music makes money today." |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
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06/05 |
"If someone betrays you once it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault." |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
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06/06 |
"It is never too late to give up your prejudices." |
Henry David Thoreau |
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06/07 |
"You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward." |
James Thurber |
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06/08 |
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." |
Voltaire |
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06/09 |
"I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian." |
Mike Tyson |
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06/10 |
"A celebrity is someone who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." |
Fred Allen |
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06/11 |
"It isn't the mountains to climb ahead that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe." |
Muhammad Ali |
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06/12 |
"Houston, Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed." |
Neil Armstrong |
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06/13 |
"Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation." |
Norman Augustine |
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06/14 |
"I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it." |
Oprah Winfrey |
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06/15 |
"I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib." |
Woody Allen |
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06/16 |
"If I had my life to live over, I'd live over a saloon." |
W.C. Fields |
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06/17 |
"I went to a 7-11 and asked for a 2x4 and a box of 3x5's. The clerk said ten-four." |
Steven Wright |
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06/18 |
"Life doesn't imitate art. It imitates bad television." |
Woody Allen |
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06/19 |
Luke Skywalker: "I don't believe it!" Yoda: "That is why you fail." |
George Lucas |
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06/20 |
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." |
Soren Kierkegaard |
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06/21 |
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." |
Emile Zola |
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06/22 |
"Assassins!" |
Arturo Toscanini |
... to his orchestra |
06/23 |
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not to enjoy ourselves." |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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06/24 |
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." |
Thomas Henry Huxley |
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06/25 |
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." |
Forrest Tucker |
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06/26 |
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." |
Winston Churchill |
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06/27 |
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." |
Clarence Darrow |
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06/28 |
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." |
William Faullner |
About Ernest Hemingway |
06/29 |
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." |
Plato |
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06/30 |
"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It's someone who understamds Marx and Lenin." |
Ronald Reagan |
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07/01 |
"When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'" |
Rita Rudner |
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07/02 |
"Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist." |
Mary Kay Ash |
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07/03 |
"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good." |
George Washington |
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07/04 |
Happy Fourth! |
Factel Staff |
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07/05 |
"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow." |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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07/06 |
"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing." |
Mark Twain |
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07/07 |
"The reason there are two senators from each state is so that one can be the designated driver." |
Jay Leno |
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07/08 |
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book, I'll waste no time reading it." |
Moses Haldas |
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07/09 |
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." |
Abraham Lincoln |
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07/10 |
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." |
Oscar Wilde |
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07/11 |
" I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one." |
George Bernard Shaw |
to Winston Churchill |
07/12 |
" I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." |
Stephen Bishop |
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07/13 |
"Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature." |
Orson Welles |
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07/14 |
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." |
Mark Twain |
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07/15 |
"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." |
John Bright |
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07/16 |
"I just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." |
Irvin S. Cobb |
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07/17 |
"He has the attention span of a lightening bolt." |
Robert Redford |
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07/18 |
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." |
Mae West |
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07/19 |
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice there is." |
Yogi Berra |
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07/20 |
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." |
George Burns |
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07/21 |
"Dancing is silent poetry." |
Simonides |
(556-468 BC) |
07/22 |
"Wherever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'." |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
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07/23 |
"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death." |
H.H. Munro |
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07/24 |
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." |
J. Paul Getty |
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07/25 |
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." |
Antoine de Saint Exupery |
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07/26 |
"Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera." |
James Stephens |
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07/27 |
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all agnosticism means." |
Clarence Darrow |
Scopes Trial, 1925 |
07/28 |
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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07/29 |
"Everyone is a genius once a year; a real genius has his ideas closer together." |
Georg Lichtenberg |
|
07/30 |
"While we are postponing, life speeds by." |
Seneca |
(3 BC - 65 AD) |
07/31 |
"Luck is the residue of design." |
Branch Rickey |
|
08/01 |
"Wit is educated insolence." |
Aristotle |
(384 BC - 322 BC) |
08/02 |
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows." |
Aristotle Onassis |
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08/03 |
"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts I do understand." |
Mark Twain |
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08/04 |
"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future." |
Dennis Waitley |
|
08/05 |
"The purpose of all wars, is peace." |
St. Augustine |
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08/06 |
"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks." |
Marcus Aurelius |
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08/07 |
"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause." |
Mark Twain |
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08/08 |
"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks." |
James Allen |
|
08/09 |
"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap." |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
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08/10 |
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty." |
James Madison |
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08/11 |
"Women cannot complain about men anymore, until they start getting better taste in them." |
Bill Maher |
|
08/12 |
"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing." |
Emo Philips |
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08/13 |
"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know." |
Groucho Marx |
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08/14 |
"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured." |
Mark Twain |
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08/15 |
"The Washington Bullets are changing their name. They don't want their name to be associated with crime. From now on, they'll just be known as the Bullets." |
Jay Leno |
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08/16 |
"Think off-center." |
George Carlin |
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08/17 |
"Once, during prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water." |
W.C. Fields |
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08/18 |
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." |
Bill Watterson |
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08/19 |
"It's better to be looked over than overlooked." |
Mae West |
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08/20 |
"Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent." |
Jimmy Carter |
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08/21 |
"I'm not always right because I'm the manager, but I'm always right because I'm the manager." |
Gene Mauch |
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08/22 |
"A dog that trots about finds a bone." |
Golda Meir |
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08/23 |
"Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too." |
H.L. Mencken |
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08/24 |
"Be larger than your task." |
Orison Swett Marden |
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08/25 |
"Happiness is a warm gun." |
John Lennon |
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08/26 |
"I would have made a good Pope." |
Richard Nixon |
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08/27 |
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." |
Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
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08/28 |
"They know enough who know how to learn." |
Henry B. Adams |
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08/29 |
"Prejudice is opinion without judgment." |
Voltaire |
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08/30 |
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place." |
H.L. Mencken |
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08/31 |
"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours." |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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09/01 |
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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09/02 |
"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody." |
Benjamin Franklin |
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09/03 |
"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far." |
Thomas Jefferson |
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09/04 |
"Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger." |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
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09/05 |
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
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09/06 |
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it." |
Mark Twain |
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09/07 |
"Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power." |
Oprah Winfrey |
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09/08 |
"Your life is what your thoughts make it." |
Marcus Aurelius |
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09/09 |
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." |
Muhammad Ali |
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09/10 |
"They've got us surrounded again, poor bastards." |
General Creighton W. Abrams |
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09/11 |
"He who spares the wicked injures the good." |
Seneca |
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09/12 |
"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived." |
Abraham Lincoln |
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09/13 |
"Laws are silent in times of war." |
Cicero |
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09/14 |
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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09/15 |
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." |
Plato |
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09/16 |
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president." |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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09/17 |
"War does not determine who is right, only who is left." |
Bertrand Russell |
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09/18 |
"How soon we forget history ... Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." |
George Washington |
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09/19 |
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights." |
Muhammad Ali |
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09/20 |
"Patience is the companion of wisdom." |
St. Augustine |
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09/21 |
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." |
James Madison |
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09/22 |
"My doctor asked me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people." |
Orson Welles |
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09/23 |
"Where do you go to get anorexia?" |
Shelly Winters |
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09/24 |
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." |
Mark Twain |
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09/25 |
"There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness." |
Cicero |
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09/26 |
"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted." |
Mae West |
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09/27 |
"If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place." |
Orison Swett Marden |
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09/28 |
" No one can earn a million dollars honestly." |
William Jennings Bryan |
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09/29 |
"I love Micky Mouse more than any woman I have ever known." |
Walt Disney |
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09/30 |
"The graveyards are full of indespensible men." |
Charles de Gaulle |
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10/01 |
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." |
Honore de Balzak |
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10/02 |
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." |
Martin Luther King. |
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10/03 |
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." |
Confucius |
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10/04 |
"I am not young enough to know everything." |
Oscar Wilde |
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10/05 |
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same." |
Oscar Wilde |
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10/06 |
"I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking." |
Katherine Cebrian |
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10/07 |
"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." |
Yogi Berra |
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10/08 |
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." |
Voltaire |
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10/09 |
"No sane man will dance." |
Cicero |
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10/10 |
"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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10/11 |
"Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!" |
Mike Tyson |
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10/12 |
"It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant." |
Richard J. Ferris |
President of American Airlines |
10/13 |
"Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply', but not in those words." |
Woody Allen |
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10/14 |
"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance." |
Plato |
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10/15 |
"Plato was a bore." |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
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10/16 |
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." |
Leo Tolstoy |
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10/17 |
"I'm not going to get into the ring with Mr. Tolstoy." |
Ernest Hemingway |
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10/18 |
"Hemingway was a jerk." |
Harold Robbins |
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10/19 |
"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me." |
Charles William Stubbs |
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10/20 |
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." |
Sun Tzu |
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10/21 |
"Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required." |
Winston Churchill |
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10/22 |
"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done." |
Carl Friedrich Gauss |
While working, when informed his wife was dying |
10/23 |
"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" |
Will Rogers |
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10/24 |
"We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative." |
Golda Meir |
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10/25 |
"There is no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home." |
Ken Olson |
President, Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 |
10/26 |
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" |
H.M. Warner |
Warner Brothers founder, 1927 |
10/27 |
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." |
Decca Recording Co. |
Rejecting the Beatles, 1962 |
10/28 |
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." |
Jason Kidd |
Upon being drafted by the Dallas Mavericks |
10/29 |
"Love is friendship set on fire." |
Jeremy Taylor |
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10/30 |
"I worship the quicksand he walks on." |
Art Buchwald |
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10/31 |
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." |
Emma Goldman |
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11/01 |
"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation." |
Voltaire |
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11/02 |
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." |
Plato |
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11/03 |
"It's a dangerous business going out your front door." |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
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11/04 |
"Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners." |
Fred Allen |
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11/05 |
"A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait." |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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11/06 |
"Vote early and vote often." |
Al Capone |
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11/07 |
"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals." |
Benjamin Franklin |
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11/08 |
"It is easier to stay out than get out." |
Mark Twain |
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11/09 |
"It ain't what they call you. It's what you answer to." |
W.C Fields |
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11/10 |
"I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine." |
H.L. Mencken |
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11/11 |
"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends." |
Abraham Lincoln |
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11/12 |
"If I was your husband, I'd drink it." |
Winston Churchill |
Retort to Lady Astor, a teetotaller seated next to him at a dinner party. He was enjoying a coctail when she leaned over and said, "If you were my husband, I'd put poison in that drink." |
11/13 |
"When you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it -- this is knowledge." |
Confucius |
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11/14 |
"If a business is worth a dollar and I can buy it for forty cents, something good may happen to me." |
Warren Buffett |
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11/15 |
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." |
St. Augustine |
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11/16 |
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
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11/17 |
"There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know." |
Harry Truman |
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11/18 |
"The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted." |
James Madison |
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11/19 |
"Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other." |
Seneca |
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11/20 |
"It is easier to stay out than to get out." |
Mark Twain |
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11/21 |
"Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired." |
Mae West |
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11/22 |
"You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more." |
Oprah Winfrey |
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11/23 |
"For age and want, save while you may; no morning sun lasts the whole day." |
Benjamin Franklin |
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11/24 |
"Fashion is made to become unfashionable." |
Coco Chanel |
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11/25 |
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." |
Pablo Picasso |
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11/26 |
"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." |
Jonathan Swift |
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11/27 |
"As life closes in on someone who has borrowed far too much money on the strength of far too little income, there are no fire escapes." |
John Kenneth Gailbraith |
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11/28 |
"Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." |
H.L. Mencken |
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11/29 |
"To you, I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition." |
Woody Allen |
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11/30 |
"To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches." |
Cicero |
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12/01 |
"One should count each day a separate life." |
Seneca |
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12/02 |
"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much." |
Mark Twain |
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12/03 |
"A golden rule for every businessman is this: Put yourself in your customer's place." |
Orison Swett Marden |
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12/04 |
"You're never beaten until you admit it." |
General George S. Patton, Jr. |
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12/05 |
"Whoever wishes to see the future must consult the past." |
Machiavelli |
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12/06 |
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." |
Winston Churchill |
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12/07 |
"The humble suffer when the mighty disagree." |
Phaedrus |
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12/08 |
Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself. |
African Proverb |
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12/09 |
He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the arguement |
Chinese Proverb |
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12/10 |
"Whatever you are, be a good one." |
Abraham Lincoln |
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12/11 |
"The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and therefore should be treated with caution." |
J.K. Rowling |
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12/12 |
"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong." |
Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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12/13 |
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." |
Dorothy Parker |
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12/14 |
"It is no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense." |
Mark Twain |
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12/15 |
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men that died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." |
General George S. Patton, Jr. |
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12/16 |
"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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12/17 |
"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy." |
Margaret Thatcher |
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12/18 |
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimny with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap, |
Major Henry Livingston, Jr. |
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12/19 |
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash, tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow, gave the luster of mid-day to objects below, When what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer, |
Major Henry Livingston, Jr. |
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12/20 |
With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick. More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name; "Now Dasher! now Dancer! now Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on Cupid! on Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!" |
Major Henry Livingston, Jr. |
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12/21 |
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky; So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too. And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof, The prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my head, and was turning around, Down the chimny St. Nicholas came with a bound. |
Major Henry Livingston, Jr. |
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12/22 |
He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack. His eyes - how they twinkled! his dimples how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry! His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow; |
Major Henry Livingston, Jr. |
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12/23 |
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath; He had a broad face and a round little belly, That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself; A wink of his eye and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread; |
Major Henry Livingston, Jr. |
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12/24 |
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimny he rose; He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle, But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night." |
Major Henry Livingston, Jr. |
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12/25 |
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you! |
Factel Staff |
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12/26 |
"A good conscience is a continual Christmas." |
Benjamin Franklin |
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12/27 |
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." |
Mark Twain |
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12/28 |
"If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it." |
Earl Wilson |
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12/29 |
Be the first to the field and the last to the couch |
Chinese Proverb |
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12/30 |
No one tests the depth of a river with both feet |
African Proverb |
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12/31 |
"When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective." |
GEN George Catlett Marshall |
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