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Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them. ~Author Unknown



We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in. ~Will Rogers



If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi



What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? ~Mary Oliver



Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. ~Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942



To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance. ~A. Bronson Alcott



It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it. ~From the television show The Golden Girls



Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. ~Maurice Baring



Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. ~Maurice Baring



Really I don't dislike to cook, but what you cook is eaten so quickly. When you sew, you have something that will last to show for your efforts. ~Elizabeth Travis Johnson



Vanity is the quicksand of reason ~George Sand



In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. ~Nikita Ivanovich Panin



If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. ~One of Murphy's Laws of Technology



Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes. ~Jean Jaures



It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain. ~Francis Maude



You know you've reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired. ~Author Unknown



When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine. ~H.G. Wells, 1935



Ignorance and prejudice are fuelling the spread of a preventable disease. World AIDS Day, 1 December is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV and AIDS.... It's up to you, me and us to stop the spread of HIV and end prejudice. ~worldaidsday.org, 2006



The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ~Jean Cocteau



If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. ~Francis Bacon