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Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
I can, therefore I am.
I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Genius is never understood in its own time.
Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.
It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.