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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb



Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler



'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. ~Lord Byron



The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time. ~David Shoup



Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive systems. ~Helen M. Winslow



The list of Irish saints is past counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick - who was an Irishman only by adoption. ~Stephen Gwynn



Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen. ~James Russel Lowell



Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet," Essays, Second Series, 1844



There is no failure except in no longer trying. ~Elbert Hubbard



We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake. ~Erich Fromm



To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. ~Oscar Wilde



I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble - and you go to strip clubs. ~Scott Caan



It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. ~Sherwood Anderson



When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. ~Joseph Joubert



When you knock, ask to see God - none of the servants. ~Henry David Thoreau



One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Eloquence is vehement simplicity. ~Richard Cecil



Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. ~Winston Churchill



We're all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966