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The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Why march to the beat of your own drummer when you can skip? ~Dave May, as posted on iskip.com



While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. ~Henry C. Link



Any proverbs about weather are doubly true during a storm. ~Terri Guillemets



Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. ~Marcel Proust



It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. ~Proverbs 21:9



A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed. ~George Rosenbaum



Is a stolen copyright a copywrong? ~Anonymous



Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on. ~Abraham Lincoln



Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik



Caffeine isn't a drug, it's a vitamin! ~Author Unknown



Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~David Frost



Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~Oprah Winfrey



No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. ~Abraham Lincoln



We are all parasites; we humans, the greatest. ~Martin H. Fischer



I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard



The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart. ~Frederick Denison Maurice



Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing. ~Herman Broch