| Here are more of
Clyde's
favorite quotes: "The cruelist lies are often told in silence."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Go sit in your cell and your cell will teach you
everything."
from the
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will
take you there"
Irish proverb
"The noblest art is that of making others happy."
P.T. Barnum
"We are always certain that the
decision we have just made is wrong."
Isaac Asimov
"The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the
fragrance of the grass speaks to me."
Chief Dan George
"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."
Oscar Wilde (supposedly his last words)
"I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her
mouth."
Chico Marx
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny
matters compared to what lies within us."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the
fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away."
Dorothy Parker
"Damn everything in the world but the circus."
e.e. cummings
"When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12
ounces of paper and ink and glue --you sell him a whole new life"
Christopher Morley
"Nothing can be loved or hated until it is
understood."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Ninety-nine lies may save you, but the hundredth will
give you away."
West African proverb
"My religion is kindness."
The Dalai Lama
"I think God did send AIDS for a reason. It was to show
how mean and sinful a healthy man can be toward a sick man."
Joe Bob Briggs
"Peace comes within the souls of men when they realize
their oneness with the universe."
Black Elk
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the
mysterious."
Albert Einstein
"Why do sparrows sing? Because they have a
song!"
Jim Mulligan, Kevin's ornithology prof at SLU, after decades of
studying bird song
"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education;
in the elder, a part of experience. He that traveleth into a country before he hath
some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel."
Francis Bacon
"...once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but
is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers ...the mind can
never break off from the journey."
Pat Conroy
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
Yogi Berra
"When in doubt, tell the truth."
Mark Twain
"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more
perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the
introduction of a new order of things."
Niccolo Machiavelli
"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well
used brings happy death."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Every step is peace."
Thich Nat Hanh
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