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Wise New Saying - Author
A cheat believes that everyone cheats. - VP Pappy (thanks to T. Murphy)
A dog will not tell you he has fleas but you can tell by the way he scratches. Graham Willets (Thanks to Treharris Mid Glamorgan)
A dream is reality which has yet to materialize. - Dave McDaniel
A foolish man perceives meekness as weakness - Terry Miller (on underestimating your fellow man
A jug of water is a disguise ocean. - jean noil
A man who conquers himself is much more superior than a man who conquers many thousands of men in battle. - Jedisaga
A smile is a light in the window of your face to show your heart is at home. unknown
A smile is your personal welcome mat. - unknown
A teacher's job is to take a room full of live wires and make sure they are well grounded. unknown
A wistful waste makes a woeful want. - Virgil B. Lawrence
Accept the world the way it is and allow yourself to be the way you are. - Jack Canfield
A friend tells you what you want to hear, but a best friend tells you the truth. - Krissy
A true friend will remember you for the good and bad times and love you for both. - Krissy
Action is the antedote to despair. - Joan Baez
All friends have faults; forgive a little or have none. - Monty Overson
Always aim for the moon; even if you miss... you'll still be among the stars. - unknown, thanks to Sara Saathoff
An unaware person lives in the past, mentally experiencing all the things that might have happened, but didn't. - Zoe Calder, Writer
Any day above ground is a good day. - Robert Gerus
Anything worth doing takes a risk...go out on that limb, that's where the fruit is. - Cynthia Brian
Arrogance is the full sister of ignorance. - Ruben Zuniga
As we work for the boss, the boss works for us. - Monty Overson
Be gentle with the earth. - Dalai Lama
Be glad you are unknown, for when you are known, you will wish you weren't. - Stephen Anderson
Be humble while being good and your work will speak for itself. - Monty Overson
Believe that most people are doing the best they can. - unknown
"Believing is not seeing" - unknown Thanks to John M
Brains are like mouths; when empty they blather, when full they digest. - Pete Harrison
Character is what you do when no one else is looking. - Dr. Laura
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. - unknown (Thanks to IceScythe7)
Confidence cannot be imitated; confidence can only come from a belief in one's self or others. - Harry Lindsay
Courtesy is free. - unknown but similar to B. Franklin's "Be not stingy in what costs nothing as courtesy, counsel and countenance."
Cushion it (criticism) with compliments. - Anonymous
Dare to be different. - unknown
Demolish the dam of judgement and watch the nurturing waters of truth flood in. - Zoe Calder, writer
Dive in and learn as you go. - unknown
Don't be superstitious, for it is unlucky to be superstitious. - John Baxter
Don't bet the cow if you need the milk. - VP Pappy (Thanks to tismurph
Don't complain about farmers with your mouth full. - unknown
Don't dissect a rainbow. - Denise LaFrance, Painter (1964-present) on not destroying a beautiful phenomenon by over analyzing it.
Don't explain. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it. - Jen Tishere
Don't lead a blind man down the wrong road. - Matt Atkinson
Don't mess with Einstein. - Monty Overson
Don't step over dollars to save pennies. - Parts Department No. Shore Toyota
Don't take life too seriously. - unknown
Don't worry about tomorrow until it's today. - Kyle Kirkland
Each passing minute is one less chance to change. - Greg Platz
Education is just a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn. - Jay Huff
Enjoy the process. - unknown
Even Babe Ruth struck out sometimes. - unknown
Every child that is born is proof that God has not given up on human beings. - Unknown Indian poet, thanks to S.M. Chandraskhar, India
Every end has a new beginning. - Carissa Ciciarelli
Everybody deserves to be loved. - unknown
Everyone has a message for us. - unknown
Everyone has a story; some people just have a better way of telling it. - Deb Kell()
Everything happens for the best. - unknown
Everything looks different from another point of view. - Gabriel Vasquez
Fall seven times, get up eight. - unknown
Fear makes strangers of people who could be friends. - Shirley Maclaine
Feel the fear and do it anyway. - Susan Jeffers
Find and fix the problem and mere symptoms will be revealed. - Monty Overson
Five brothers are like a bundle of twigs. Together they are harder to break, but separated they are easily snapped. - Zeshan Ahmed
Flexible people don't get bent out of shape. - unknown
For every bow there is an arrow. A similar saying goes: When the student is ready, the teacher will come. - Author's name unavailable
For you to do what you need to do, you first must come to terms with the fact that you need to do what you need to do. - Chrisbel N Dafeamekpor
Friendship is the foundation on which true love is built. - Victoria (Tori) Thompson
Garbage in, garbage out. - unknown (c.1964)
Get the monkey off your back. - unknown
Gifts are reflections of how others perceive you. - Gregory Rich
Give a smile and you bring the world new hope. - G.B. Addo
Give somebody an inch and they will think they're a ruler. - jbmagic
Go where life takes you. - unknown
Go with the flow. - unknown
Good direction makes students or staff good. - Monty Overson
Good judgement comes from experience and experience, well, that comes from bad judgement. unknown
Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving. - unknown
Happiness is an inside job. - unknown
Happiness is not a product of our surroundings, it's something we must make inside ourselves. - Corrie Ten Boom
Have tolerance for repeated errors in children. - unknown
Heartache is but a visitor, it won't stay long. - Jim Garnett
I can't see betting on a horserace; there's just too many damn horses. VP Pappy (Thanks to T. Murphy)
I can't stop growing old but I don't have to get old. - Patrick A. Hirth
I never regret my failures, only the things i failed to attempt. - A. Foard
Identifying a race, identifies a racist; there is only one race, "The human race"! - Serge Crespy, Collingwood Ontario, 1942-
If good were within, good would come out. - unknown
If it isn't in writing, it doesn't exist. - Phil Ryder
If you can laugh at it, you can live with it. - Erma Bombeck
If you can't beat them, join them. - unknown
If you can't dream then you can't rest. - Will
If you can't make a decision, then you don't have enough information yet. - unknown
If you cut too many corners, you'll be going in circles. - Todd Reaker()
If you don't look after the little things in life, they will look after you. - Brian Fierling
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you. - Jay Huff
In the end only kindness matters. - Jim Garnett
In the presence of trouble, some people grow wings and others buy crutches. - Harold W. Ruoff
In time all are tempted, all tried, all tested and in adversity all come to self knowledge. - Jim Garnett
It can take a moment to make a decision that can take a lifetime to deal with the consequences. - T. Steckley
It is a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. - Dick Cavett
It is better to live on your feet than to die on your knees. - John Costello
It is incredible how much intelligence is used to prove nonsense. - Jay Huff
It is our duty to teach others how to treat us. - Monty Overson
It's easier to make friends than it is to make enemies; you have to work to make enemies. - George L. Kloss
It's easy to destroy - It takes effort to create. - M. Slater
It's hard to fight an enemy which has outposts in your head. - Sally Kempton


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