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The honeymoon is over when he phones that he’ll be late for supper - and she has already left a note that it’s in the refrigerator.
- Bill Lawrence

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History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.
- Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Returning to Greece

I've booked flights and eight nights in the same hotel where I was for Christmas. Athens, here I come, whooooo hooooo. Hoping a combination of good weather and no public holidays will give me the flexibility to rent a car and drive out to see some sights, either up at Thermopylae and Delphi, or down on the Pelopponesian peninsula, with Mycene and Olympia. Either way I am bouncing with excitement!

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Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice renders to virtue.
- De La Rochefoucauld

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You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
- Booker T. Washington

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Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.
- G. K. Chesterton

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
- Samuel Johnson

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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill

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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked me for my autograph.
- Shirley Temple

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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
- John D. Rockefeller

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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
- James Russel Lowell

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It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Der Hunger is der beste Koch
[Hunger is the best cook]
-Freidank, German 13th century writer

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A creed is a rod,
And a crown is of night:
But this thing is God:
To be man with thy might,
To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit,
And live out thy life as the light.
- A. C. Swinburne

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.
- Joel Rosenberg

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There are worse things than getting a call for the wrong number at 4 AM. It could be the right number.
- Doug Larson

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A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
- Frank Capra

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Nothing is like it seems, but everything is exactly like it is.
- Yogi Berra

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It's a good thing we have free speech because it helps us find out who the real idiots are.
- Avon Wilson