“No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.”
Author Ellen Glasgow, quoted in the Associated Press
“You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.”
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“Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can’t be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.”
English writer Sydney Smith, quoted in the Fort Wayne, Ind., News-Sentinel
“The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.”
Marcel Proust, quoted in BookReporter.com
“Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.”
Benjamin Disraeli, quoted in Forbes.com
“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.”
Alexander Graham Bell, quoted in the Monterey County, Calif., Herald
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