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Archives - March 2009

March 1, 2009

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

– Frederick Douglass

March 2, 2009

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

– George Moore

March 3, 2009

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

– Robert Benchley

March 4, 2009

It's never just a game when you're winning.

– George Carlin

March 5, 2009

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

– Bill Cosby

March 6, 2009

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

– Jim Rohn

March 7, 2009

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

– George Bernard Shaw

March 8, 2009

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

– Austin Phelps

March 9, 2009

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

March 10, 2009

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

– Francois de La Rochefoulauld

March 11, 2009

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

– Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

March 12, 2009

Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.

– Fran Leibowitz

March 13, 2009

The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't.

– Mark Twain

March 14, 2009

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.

– George Macdonald

March 15, 2009

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few people engage in it.

– Henry Ford

March 16, 2009

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

March 17, 2009

May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.

– Irish Blessing

March 18, 2009

The best way out is always through.

– Robert Frost

March 19, 2009

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

– Daniel J. Boorstin

March 20, 2009

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.

– Ruth Stout

March 21, 2009

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

– Robert Heinlein, JOB: A Comedy of Justice

March 22, 2009

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!

– Owens Lee Pomeroy

March 23, 2009

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

– Robert G. Ingersoll

March 24, 2009

I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.

– Harry Mahtar

March 25, 2009

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.

– Alfred E. Newman

March 26, 2009

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

– Erma Bombeck

March 27, 2009

Insanity is hereditary --- you get it from your kids.

– Sam Levenson

March 28, 2009

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.

– Jim Davis

March 29, 2009

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

– Irvin S. Cobb

March 30, 2009

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

– Leon J. Suenes

March 31, 2009

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

– Gilbert Highet