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Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. ~Max Eastman



Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere. ~W.S. Anglin



Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. ~Epictetus



There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross



A statesman of the school of sound common sense, and a philanthropist of the most practical type, a patriot without a superior - his monument is a country preserved. ~C.S. Harrington



Think before you ink! ~Author Unknown



I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ~Dudley Field Malone



Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. ~Faith Whittlesey



In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them. ~William F. Halsey



Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities



Bad weather always looks worse through a window. ~Author Unknown



There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us. ~Laurence J. Peter



I got a sewing machine for my husband! Good trade, huh? ~Author Unknown



It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Was there ever a grandparent, bushed after a day of minding noisy youngsters, who hasn't felt the Lord knew what He was doing when He gave little children to young people? ~Joe E. Wells



He was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings. And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty. ~Arthur Brisbane



If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies. ~Author Unknown



For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. ~Ecclesiastes 1:18



The other line moves faster. ~Etorre's Observation