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Glory is Fleeting/ obscurity is forever Napoleon Bonaparte Davexx

Found this one very appropriate after trying for 40min ,unsuccessfuly, to create an album on the photo-page ... To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. Farmers' Almanac, 1978

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. Edgar Watson Howe

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation. Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone. Tommy Cooper

'Silence gives consent' - Canon law 'If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking' - Gen. George Patten 'Whoever controls the media, controls the mind - Jim Morrison 'Fuddle duddle' - Piere Elliot Trudeau

Forgot my all time favourite, printed up in large font on my cube wall! 'If you don't have a sense of humour, you probably don't have any sense at all!' Brenda

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. Ben Stein

The bigger the lie, the greater the acceptance, Adolf Hitler

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. George Aiken Wonder if George was ever on these threads lol

I just came accross this one, i think it's brilliant.. and from personal experience i can identify with it... ...Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. George Bernard Shaw

The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like a bacon and egg breakfast, The Chicken was 'involved' The Pig was 'commited'. Davex

If You Cant Get Rid Of The Skeleton In Your Closet, You'd best teach it to Dance George Bernard Shaw Im all in favour of keeping dangeous weapons out of the hands of buffoons, lets start with typewriters. Frank Lloyd Wright. Be Nice To people you meet on your way up, because you will also meet them on your way down Jimmy Durante. Forgive your enemies but never forget their names John F Kennedy. Davex

A few Groucho Marx ones I like 'Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies' 'Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy' 'I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception' 'Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read'

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

You're asking for trouble getting me started on Monty Python Di ........ One Day Lad all this will be yours!! what the curtains? Stop that it's silly!! Some pearls there Brenda Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. Mary Hirsch

You asked for it!! You can never hope to discover new horizons if you don’t have the courage to lose site of the shore. I know God won’t give me more than I can handle, I just wish he didn’t trust me so much - Mother Theresa Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing – Mother Theresa A lie gets half way around the world before the truth has a chance to get it’s pants on – Winston Churchill The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. -- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf And some quotes from one of my all time favourites – Katherine Hepburn! If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. Brenda

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), (Snoopy) could've been written for me that lol

Susan, A stitch in time... it's kind of like, nip it in the bud (stop it before it grows out of all proportions) Paulx