"One good reason to maintain only a small
circle of friends is that three out of four
murders are committed by people who know
the victim."
-- George Carlin

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
-Japanese Proverb

"Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses."
---Dale Carnegie

Sometimes I don't get up after the 7th fall...

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Oscar Wilde

May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're gone -Irish blessing

Life is a journey, not a guided tour. (On a T-Shirt I have.)

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good"- Samuel Johnson (1709-84), English author

~"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."~ Sophocles

What can I say ? I'm a bank investigator....

If you can't set a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

Some days you eat chicken, Some days you eat feathers... (not sure who else said this, except my husband)

Sometimes the road less traveled, is less traveled for a reason.
- Jerry Seinfeld

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away....

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Theodore Roosevelt


P.S. Waterhouse, I really like your quote!

In love, don't choose the one you can live with; choose the one you cannot live without. -Unknown

'Work like you don't need the money, love like it's never going to hurt, and dance like nobody's watching'

Women treat friendship like glass, and it goes to pieces. Men treat friendship like a football, and it never breaks.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital" Joe Paterno

I loved this quote in college:
"And I say to all of you 'C' students, even you can be president."
- George W. Bush at a graduation speech

i thank you God for most this amazing day
for leaping greenly spirits of trees
for a blue true dream of sky
for everything which is infinite
which is natural
which is YES.

e.e. cummings

Time flies whether you're having fun or not!

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the true meaning of knowledge.
-Confucius

Dos moi pou sto, kai tan gan kinaso. (Give me a place to stand, and I will move the world.)

Archimedes

[Maria, why did you start this? This thread is like catnip to a former English major! ]

There is nothing right in my left brain and there is nothing left in my right brain...

On a bumper sticker

Quote:

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the true meaning of knowledge.
-Confucius

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So, since I know that I don't know anything, does that make me knowledgeable? And how did Confucius know that?