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An archive of Noahcs' Quotes of the day.
[edit] 2007
[edit] November
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere-
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year;
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- ― Edgar Allen Poe, (Ulalume)
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
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- ― William Shakespeare, (Hamlet, Act III, Sc. 1)
[edit] December
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
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- ― Henry David Thoreau (Sept. 1851)
The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.
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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France, I don't. I think that's old Europe. You look at vast numbers of other countries in Europe. They're not with France and Germany on this. They're with the United States.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image
Life is too complicated not to be orderly.
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- ― Martha Stewart, quoted in Harper's Bazaar
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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- ― Calvin Coolidge (30th US President)
