maxine quotes on work

America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas. ~John Burton Brimer



Vacuums don't clean houses. People clean houses. ~Everybody Loves Raymond, "Humm Vac," written by Lew Schneider, original airdate 19 March 2001, spoken by the character Marie Barone



The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. ~Cesare Pavese



I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons. ~Yannick Noah



It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. ~Thomas Carlyle



It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier



The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ~Thomas Carlyle



If you don't know what's meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout. ~Martin H. Fischer



It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. ~Arthur C. Clarke



Disease is war with the laws of our being, and all war, as a great general has said, is hell. ~Lewis G. Janes



People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. ~Soren Kierkegaard



To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Expeditions of an Untimely Man



I just hope God does not get bored of dreaming me. ~Author Unknown



If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859



Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ~Oscar Wilde



Not double trouble, but twice blessed. ~Author Unknown



I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father." ~Will Rogers



May you live all the days of your life. ~Irish blessing, also attributed to Jonathan Swift



In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance," Essays, 1841