Random Quotes
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If you cannot convince them, confuse them.Harry S Truman
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.Harry S Truman
A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.Otto von Bismarck
Violence is the diplomacy of the incompetent.Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation, said by Hari Seldon
I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.Patrick Henry
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other.Francis Bacon
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong; he can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.Mark Twain, Speech in NYC, Jan. 22, 1906
Swearing is like any other music...If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...David Gridley, Indiantown
The dark today leads into light tomorrow;
There is no endless joy,
...and yet no endless sorrow.Ella Wheeler Wilcox