Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

~ P. J. O’Rourke

Don’t let the fact that you’re going to fail deter you.

~Chris Leavins

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

~Leonardo da Vinci

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

~Phillips Brooks

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

~Lisa Kirk

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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

~Dag Hammarskjold

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

~Benjamin Franklin

It took me like three hours to finish the shading on your upper lip. It’s probably the best drawing I’ve ever done.

~Napoleon Dynamite

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.

~ Peter De Vries

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

~Joan Didion

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

~Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

~Winston Churchill

You  ain’t gonna miss your water until your well runs dry.

~Bob Marley

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

~Andre Gide

Hoc tempore obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit

~Terence

Translated: In these days friends are won through flattery. The truth gives birth to hate.

You can never outpromise a Democrat.

~Mark Belling

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time the that others waste.

~Henry Ford

Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.

~Lawrence C. Coughlin

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

~Henry David Thoreau

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

~R. D. Laing