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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
Will Rogers

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Anne Frank

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry Truman

The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates

Better to remain silent and thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Aeschylus

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good.
Abigail Van Buren

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J.R.R. Tolkien

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana

Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the spiderweb of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Paul Eldridge

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
Aristotle

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Benjamin Franklin

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Vote early and vote often.
Al Capone

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison

He who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
Estonian proverb

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.
Confucius

The body says what words cannot.
Martha Graham

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington

Ou patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson

The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas Macaulay

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

One’s work may be finished some day, but one’s education never.
Alexandre Dumas

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha

You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
French proverb

Money is like an arm or leg: use it or lose it.
Henry Ford

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin

I love the safety line – “I will not scam you.”

lu·di·crous
1 : amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity
2 : meriting derisive laughter or scorn as absurdly inept, false, or foolish
3 : Alaska Airlines’ pricing scheme

(The video was taken with a pocket-sized Vado camcorder made by Creative Labs. $99. Not bad. The original video is cleaner. Conversion to Flash dropped the quality quite a bit.)

1. Hand written sign on door: “Jiggle door handle. It’ll open.”
2. Inside restaurant: distinct smell of cats.
3. Quote from chef/cashier: “I’m so nervous. I’m here all by myself.”
4. 75% of the people who walked in, looked around and left rather quickly.

I toughed it out and got my BBQ sandwich. Sharp stomach ache followed about 15 minutes later. Woops.

Betwen the two of us, we took about 300 photos. Here are a few samples – flowers to come soon.

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Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office seeking.
Rutherford B. Hayes

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, may good luck pursue you each morning and night.
Irish saying

An eye for an eye only ends up making the world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi

It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett

A politician looks forward to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation.
Thomas Jefferson

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeates

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
P.J. O’Rourke

What we think, we become.
Buddha

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.
Will Rogers

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E.B. White

The man who can drive himself farther once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister

Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Sir Winston Churchill

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas Edison

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish proverb

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
Will Rogers

Character is power.
Booker T. Washington

He who considers his work beneath him will be above doing it well.
Alexander Chase

Efficiency is doing the right thing. Effectiveness is doing the thing right.
Peter Drucker.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Voters want a fraud they can believe in.
Will Durst

There is noting so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker

Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer

It is easier to fight for principles than it is to live up to them.
Alfred Adler

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Helen Keller

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
Henry Ford

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain

They have rights who dare maintain them.
James Russell Lowell

Where there is no desire, there is no industry.
John Locke

There isn’t a person anywhere that isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can.
Henry Ford

The greater the wealth, the thicker the dirt.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry Kissinger

Life is short. Live it up.
Nikita Krushchev

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
Gert Boyle

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Aesop

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
Demosthenes

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Benjamin Franklin

Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson