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| January 2nd | "
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." [ Winston Churchill ] |
| January 9th | "Good Will is
the mightiest practical force in the universe." |
| January 16th
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"This world is
but a thurghfare full of wo, and we be pilgrims, passing to and fro, |
| January 23rd | "A lie can
travel halfway round the world, while the truth is putting on its shoes." |
| January 30th | "Those
who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed |
| February 6th | "Laugh till the
game is played, and be you merry, my friends." [ John Masefield ] |
| February 13th | "To be in love is
merely to be in a state of perceptual anaesthesia." [ Henry L. Mencken ] |
| February 20th | "Please all, and
you will please none." [ Aesop, ca. 570 B.C. ] |
| February 27th | "But life is
short, and shorter still is the number of years you feel bold enough to face everything." [ Vincent Van Gogh, 1888 ] Vincent completed over 879 paintings from 1881 until his death in 1890. |
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| March 5th | "Glory is fleeting,
but Obscurity is forever." [ Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821 ] |
| March 12th | "Being on the
tightrope is living. Everything else is waiting." [ Karl Wallenda ] |
| March 19th | "Was it a vision or
a waking dream? Fled is that music - Do I wake or sleep?" [ Ode To A Nightingale: John Keats 1795-1821 ] |
| March 26th | "Language most
intimately echoes our dignity as human beings." [ Winging It: Keith Spicer 1982 ] |
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| April 2nd | "All men's gains are
the fruit of venturing." [ Herodotus, 5th century B.C. ] |
| April 9th | "Be the person you
want to find." [ Cheri Huber, from the book with the same name. ] |
| April 16th | "It wasn't raining
when Noah built the ark" [ Howard Ruff, 1980 ] |
| April 23rd | "Take away leisure
and Cupid's bow is broken." [ Ovid ] |
| April 30th | "A rich man is
nothing but a poor man with money." [ W.C. Fields, 1937 ] |
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| May 7th |
"The only way to
stop...thugs, is to take a gun to their knife fights." |
| May 14th | "It's
a long road that has no end to it." [ David Dunsmuir ] |
| May 21st | "If
you come to a fork in the road, take it." [ Yogi Berra ] |
| May 28th | "An
abandoned building is still full of air." [ Les Holroyd ] |
| June 4th |
"A
financier is a pawnbroker with imagination." |
| June 11th | "If
we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure." [ Dan Quayle ] |
| June 18th | "It
is a lucky man who is blessed with good fortune." [ Peter Brodie ] |
| June 25th | "It
is absolutely necessary that a country with great powers of production should possess a body of unproductive consumers." [ Thomas Malthus, 1798 ] |
| July 2nd |
"And the
power of reason, And the flowers of deep feelings, |
| July 9th | "The
rose also wilts for the hermit." [ Jeffrey Perkins ] |
| July 16th | "Take
calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." [ Geoge S. Patton, 1944 ] |
| July 23rd | "Behold
the turtle; upside-down he faces the sky." [ George Dunbar ] |
| July 30th | "The
laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular." [ Edward Gibbon, 1794 ] |
| August 6th |
"Be not a
beggar by banqueting upon borrowing." |
| August 13th | "The
Bottecelli black boy with the fuschias in his hair, is breathing in women like oxygen, on the Spanish stairs." [ Joni Mitchell, from The Only Joy in Town ] |
| August 20th | "The
public must and will be served." [ William Penn, 1644-1718 ] |
| August 27th | "Who
ever loved that loved not at first sight." [ Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593, from Hero and Leander ] |
| September 3rd | "The
can opener only goes once around the can." [ Brendan J. O'Byrne ] |
| September 10th | "A
day to come shows longer than a year that's gone." [ proverb known before 1732 ] |
| September 17th | "Fame
to infamy is a beaten road." [ proverb known before 1732 ] |
| September 24th | "That
which angers me most is to be taxes above their neighbors." [ William Petty, 1662 ] |
| October 1st | "Good
merchandise finds a ready buyer." [ Plautus, c. 200 B.C. ] |
| October 8th | "In
Wall Street, the only thing that's hard to explain is next week." [ Louis Rukeyser, 1976 ] |
| October 15th | "Laissez-faire,
laissez-passer." [ François Quesnay, 1758 ] |
| October 22nd | "Things
that are bad for business are bad for the people who work for business." [ Thomas Dewey, 1940 ] |
| October 29th | "A
fair price for oil is whatever you can get, plus ten percent." [ Ali Ahmed Attiga, 1974 ] |
| November 5th | "Trade
is the mother of money." [ Thomas Draxe, c. 1605 ] |
| November 12th | "Inside
every buy, there's a sale screaming to get out." [ Robert Heller, 1977 ] |
| November 19th | "Exploring
the centuries-old sacred places of our ancestors can transport us into an irresistible realm of ancient wisdom and mystery" [ Courtney Milne, from The Sacred Earth, 1991] |
| November 26th | "We
have made the Reich by propaganda." [ Paul Joseph Gobbels, 1897-1945 ] |
| December 3rd | "The
public must and will be served." [ William Penn, 1644-1718 ] |
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