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Archives - January 2013

January 1, 2013

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

– Oprah Winfrey

January 2, 2013

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.

– Charles Schulz, "Peanuts"

January 3, 2013

If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.

– Elmer Rice

January 4, 2013

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

– Dennis Roth

January 5, 2013

How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire?

– Christy Whitehead

January 6, 2013

I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

– Ilie Nastase

January 7, 2013

Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos.

– Don Kardong

January 8, 2013

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

– Vince Lombardi

January 9, 2013

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.

– Michael Cibenko

January 10, 2013

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad.  The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.

– Woody Allen

January 11, 2013

The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken to trace them to a common origin, will be found to be in idleness.

– Walter Gaston Shotwell

January 12, 2013

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

– John Ruskin

January 13, 2013

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

– Max Nordau

January 14, 2013

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

– Anatole France

January 15, 2013

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

– Peter Marshall

January 16, 2013

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen.

– James Russell Lowell

January 17, 2013

Waiting is one of life's hardships.

– Lemony Snicket

January 18, 2013

There's no such thing as fun for the whole family.

– Jerry Seinfeld

January 19, 2013

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

– Elisabeth Foley

January 20, 2013

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

– Tom Peters

January 21, 2013

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

January 22, 2013

What do you call a cyclist who doesn't wear a helmet? An organ donor.

– David Perry

January 23, 2013

I never did very well in math --- I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

– Calvin Trillin

January 24, 2013

Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine.

– Jeffrey Glassberg

January 25, 2013

I have no ambition in this world but one, and that is to be a fireman. The position may, in the eyes of some, appear to be a lowly one; but we who know the work which the fireman has to do believe that his is a noble calling. Our proudest moment is to save lives. 

– Edward F. Croker

January 26, 2013

Never ruin an apology with an excuse. 

– Kimberly Johnson

January 27, 2013

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up.

– Rod Laver

January 28, 2013

Geocaching augments reality in a different way. It adds a layer of the magical to the mundane.

– Ethan Zuckerman

January 29, 2013

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books --- what other men do not say in whole books.

– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS

January 30, 2013

Nerves and butterflies are fine --- they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick.

– Steve Bull

January 31, 2013

The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.

– Arthur Lacey