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"Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of its name."

"You just have to accept that some days you are the pigeon, and others you are the statue"

"Men should strive to think much and know little."

"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."

"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

"Everyday is a lot of fun or a lot of pain from having too much fun."

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

"As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser."

"There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good."

"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."

"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

"Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay."

"The Devil finds work for idle hands."

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

"I never let schooling interfere with my education."

"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times."

"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."

"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."

"I'm kind of a big deal..... People know me."

"Due to further budget constraints, the light at the end of the tunnel will be turned off until further notice."

"Life may suck, but the alternative is unacceptable."

"They say that 60 percent of the time, it works every time"

"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century."

"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."

"Man is the only creature that blushes, or needs to."

"Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you will die today."

"Laugh as much as you breathe, and love as long as you live."

"A great man is always willing to be little."

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written."

"Better a broken promise than nothing at all."

"Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have."

"Remember, half the people you know are below average."

"He who laughs last, thinks slowest."

"Just remember -- if the world didn't suck, we would all fall off."

"Light travels faster than sound.. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak."

"Life isn't like a box of chocolates; it’s more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow."