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Rule #1: Use your good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules. ~Nordstrom's Employee Handbook



The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good. ~John Barrymore



The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~Proverb



Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ~Christopher Reeve



In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878



We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! ~Percy Bysshe Shelley



The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones we can't even begin to think about in any very definite way. Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions. ~Ronald L. Graham



A woman who loves her husband is merely paying her bills. A woman who loves her lover gives alms to the poor. ~Paul-Jean Toulet



There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



I like my coffee strong, not lethal! ~M*A*S*H



Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body? ~Thomas Hardy



We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ~Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man



Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use. ~Mark Twain



If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. ~Quentin Crisp



The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself. ~La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665



The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five. ~Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1985



I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com