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Posted on November 23, 2022November 23, 2022

“Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, ‘Be fruitful and multiply.’ But not in those words.”—Woody Allen, American film director, 1935–

Posted on November 4, 2022November 4, 2022

“If a thing is old, it is a sign that it is fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality.”—Edward Rickenbacker, American fighter pilot, 1890-1973

Posted on October 7, 2022October 6, 2022

“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.”—James A. Garfield, U.S. President, 1831-1881

Posted on September 24, 2022September 23, 2022

“Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.”—William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616

Posted on August 27, 2022August 27, 2022

“All art is but imitation of nature.”—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Roman Stoic philosopher, c. 4 BC–65 AD

Posted on August 6, 2022August 6, 2022

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”—Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, 1903-1990

Posted on August 5, 2022August 5, 2022

“A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.”—Nicolas Chamfort, French epigramist, 1741-1794

Posted on June 30, 2022June 30, 2022

“There comes a time in every man’s life and I’ve had many of them.”—Casey Stengel, American baseball manager, 1890-1975

Posted on June 30, 2022August 5, 2022

“Develop your eccentricities while you’re young. That way, when you get old, people won’t think you’re going senile.”—David Ogilvy, US advertising executive, 1911-1999

Posted on June 27, 2022June 27, 2022

“There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.”—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist, 1742-1799

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