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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird; it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

C. S. Lewis



Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
~ Chinese Proverb
 
I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that didn't work.
~ Thomas Edison
 
Its kind of fun to do the impossible.
~ Walt Disney
 
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
~ George Eliot
 
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may be said to almost be living apart.
~ e.e. cummings
 
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries all disappear and life stands explained.
~ Mark Twain
 
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
 
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
~ Jimi Hendrix
 
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
~ Samuel Johnson
 
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorn'd.
~ William Congreve
 
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
~ General Douglas MacArthur
 
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
 
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
~ Groucho Marx
 
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
~ Will Rogers
 
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
~ Wernher Von Braun
 
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
~ Mark Twain
 
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
~ Christopher Darlington Morley
 
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.
~ T.H. White