All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow
 Evan Esar 


Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days
that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine
 William Feather 

3 Quotes on Happiness

Give a man health and a course to steer
and he'll never stop to trouble
about whether he's happy or not
 George Bernard Shaw 


I am kind of a paranoiac in reverse.
I suspect people of plotting to make me happy
 J. D. Salinger 


If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires
 Epicurus  


An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest
 Spanish Proverb 


Action is eloquence
 William Shakespeare 


Originality is simply a pair of new eyes
 Thomas W. Higginson 


A man who knows nothing but cricket, doesn't know cricket
 Unknown 


A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world
 John Le Carre 


In the province of the mind,
what one believes to be true either is true
or becomes true
 John Lilly 


I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were
 Katherine Dunham 


Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit — and a person is their own gardener
 James Allen 


Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise.
But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it
 John Masefield 


Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible
 Norman Cousins 


Life begets life. Energy creates energy.
It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich
 Sarah Bernhardt 


Most people never run far enough on their first wind,
to find out if they've got a second. 
Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed
at the energy that comes out of you
 William James 


You meet saints everywhere.
They are people behaving decently in an indecent society
 Kurt Vonnegut 


The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up
for the acts of greed in the headlines
 Charles Kuralt 


Macho does not prove mucho
 Zsa Zsa Gabor 


It's hard to beat a person who never gives up
 Babe Ruth 


Thanks, as usual, to Tim Lane of FitNet, where I find many of my favorite quotes.
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