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Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. ~William Shakespeare



Creditors have better memories than debtors. ~Benjamin Franklin



No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him. ~Bud Flanagan



The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's. ~Mark Twain, letter to W.D. Howells, 2 April 1899



For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. ~I Timothy 6:10



For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Author Unknown



Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ~Gordon R. Dickson



I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. ~Lauren Bacall



Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. ~Douglas Adams



The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good old days. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physical demythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, roofless wandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right to walk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. The walk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage of the feudal promenade in the nineteenth century. ~Theodor W. Adorno



The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen. ~John Redman Coxe, 1800



Education is the best provision for old age. ~Aristotle



I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me. ~Edith Sodergran



If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. ~Simon Rattle



Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ~H.G. Wells, The Outline of History



Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; they put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! ~Isaiah 5:20



I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. ~Victor Hugo



There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ~Will Rogers



A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb