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As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made.
Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant.
A guy ran a red light like at 2AM, got home fine, no police saw him or anything like that. About 3 weeks later he gets a bill from the police department and a photo of his truck running that light. So, like the smart/dumbass he is, he gets cute, lays out some money on the bed(the price of the ticket), takes a photo of it, and sends it in. So a few weeks pass and he gets another letter, this one has a photo of handcuffs. He promptly paid the bill.
The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
Genius . . . means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble.
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Genius and its rewards are briefly told: A liberal nature and a niggard doom, A difficult journey to a splendid tomb.
"Presents," I often say, endear Absents."
'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'
Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.
Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.
It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatnessâgreat wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
The glory of Him who Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when the world He created.
Ye country comets, that portend No war not princes' funeral Shining unto no other end Than to presage the grass's fall.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
God is best known in not knowing him. [Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.]
God never made His work for man to mend.
God sends us meat, the devil sends us cooks.
Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the yellow god forever gazes down.
Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
