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Judge: a law student who marks his own papers. ~H.L. Mencken



Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. ~Doug Larson



Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. ~James Bryant Conant



Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force. ~Frederick Maurice Powicke, History, Freedom & Religion



It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. ~Mariane Moore, "A Grave," Collected Poems, 1951



The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. ~John Allen Paulos



Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds. ~George Eliot



In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. ~Mark Twain



I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. ~Abraham Lincoln



When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. ~Edward F. Croker



Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein



One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa. ~Mac O'Grady, describing a typical round of golf



There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1595



Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. ~Mark Twain



Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ~C.S. Lewis



Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~Albert Camus



Friendship is a sheltering tree. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge



When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break. ~William Hale White



It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart. ~Author Unknown It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing. ~Eleanor Perenyi, Green Thoughts, 1981