This week's fun lines, sayings or quotes.

[pommystuart]

• "Never return a kindness---pass it on!"
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• "The two hardest things in life to handle are success and failure."
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• "Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people."
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• "Kissing is okay for awhile, but good cooking lasts forever."
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• "When the horse is dead, dismount!"
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• "Health nuts are going to feel real strange someday... lying around hospitols,
  dying of nothing."
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• "It may be true that hard work never killed anyone, but why take the chance?"

[pommystuart]

• "Counting time is not so important as making time count."
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• "A good man dies when a boy goes wrong."
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• "Success usually comes to those too busy to look for it."
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• "Just a little thoughtfulness brings alot of happiness."
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• "To a friends' house, the road is never long."
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• "You've learned to live with yourself when you can drive
  around the block alone without turning on your car radio."
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• "There is a special satisfaction in puzzling out a new
  gadget...once you master the thing, you can begin to
  understand the instructions that came with it!"

[Randi]

[Michael]

[pommystuart]

• "By Inflection you can say much more than your words do."
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• Life is like a good book...the further you get into it,
  the more it make sense!"
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• "There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man
  than the way in which they can build and yet leave a
  landscape as it was before..."
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• "The real beauty of democracy is that the average man
  believes he is above average."
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• "Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that
  society owes to itself."
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• "Spring is God's way of saying, "One more time!"
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• "The older you get, the more important is is not to act your age."*

[Michael]

[pommystuart]

Some quotes from https://www.countryliving.com/life/g281 ... as-quotes/

Rachel Cohn - “I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas. It brings people together while time stands still.”

Charlotte Carpenter - “Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree.”

Truman Capote, A Christmas Memory, "It’s fruitcake weather!"

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, “A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!”

Harlan Miller - “I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.”

Larry Wilde - “Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”

Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street, “Oh, Christmas isn’t just a day; it’s a frame of mind.”

Sherryl Woods, An O’Brien Family Christmas, -
“The light of the Christmas star to you. The warmth of home and hearth to you. The cheer and goodwill of friends to you.”

[pommystuart]

• "The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.
  The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."
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• "Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all."
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• "Do NOT believe in miracles -- rely on them!"
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• "One child is not enough, but two are far too many."
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• Everybody lies; but it doesn't matter much since nobody listens.
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• "Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies."
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• Confusion creates jobs.

[pommystuart]

• "For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism."
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• He who laughs last probably didn't get the joke.
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• "When you dial a wrong number, you NEVER get a busy signal."
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  "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
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• "No matter where you go....
  there you are!"
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• "Wind velocity increases directly with the cost of the hairdo."
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• "A clean tie attracts the soup of the day."
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[Michael]

[Morgan]

Thank you Stuart. We are assured at least one moment of smiling a week.

[pommystuart]

[pommystuart]

• "Sooner or later, the worst is bound to occur."
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• "The other line always moves faster."
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• "If you like it, they don't have it in your size."
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• "If it's good, they discontinued it."
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• "Any task worth doing was worth doing yesterday."
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• "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
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• "Authority always tends to assign jobs to those least able to do them."

[pommystuart]

• "If you cannot convince them, confuse them."
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• "Never eat anything bigger than your head."
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• "You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step in it."
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• "Only God can make a random selection."
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• "Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough!"
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• A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.
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• There are no answers, only cross-references!
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[Michael]

[pommystuart]

• "The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift."
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• "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years."
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• "Love is what you've been through with somebody."
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• "Mother Nature is a Bitch."
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• "I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?"
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• "It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it!"
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• "If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?"
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[pommystuart]

• "A little sincerity is a dangerous thing; and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
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  "These IS a difference between philosophy and a bumper sticker!"
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  "Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense."
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  "Man has lost the capacity to forsee and forestall. He will end by destroying the earth."
  Albert Schweitzer
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  "The brain is as strong as its weakest think."
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  "Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him."
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  "Only the past is immortal"
  Delmore Schwartz
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[pommystuart]

• "May you live all the days of your life."
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  "Free are those who dream dreams."
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  "Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."
  ---Henri Bergson
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  "Mistrust first impulses, they are always good."
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  "The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
  Sydney J. Harris
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  "To my embarrassment, I was born in bed with a lady!"
  ---Wilson Mizner
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  "Birth is the beginning of death."
  ---Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)

[pommystuart]

• A bird in the hand makes it awfully hard to blow your nose.
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  "The ultimate censorship is the click of the dial."
  ---Tommy Smothers
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  "Character is destiny."
  ---Heraclitus (540-475? B.C.)
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  "Integrity has no need of rules."
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  "Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization."
  ---Eugene V. Debs
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  "Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe."
  ---H.G. Wells
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  "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
  ---Oscar Wilde

[pommystuart]

• "If you think before you speak, the other fellow gets his joke in first."
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  "Don't talk unless you can improve the silence."
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  "The bitter part of discretion is valor."
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  Have the courage to live. Anyone can die."
  ---Robert Cody
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  Death is mother nature's warning to slow down."
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  "The past is but the beginning of a beginning."
  --H.G. Wells
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  "I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise."
  ---Noel Coward
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