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Christmas night, stars shine bright, and all the angels are singing. 'The Son of God is Born' Little child, holy child, how I want to be near you, this blessed Christmas night. – Garry Gamble	added by anonymous 14 years ago
That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself. – Tom Gates	added by anonymous 14 years ago
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The little I know, I owe to my ignorance. – Sacha Guitry	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To your friends, you're like a trash bag they'll use you for a little bit, then they'll throw you out. – Adam R. Gwizdala	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. – Margaret Halsey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. – Edward H. Harriman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Only the little people pay taxes. – Leona Helmsly	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. – Mary Hemingway	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else. – Cullen Hightower	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one. – Jim Hightower	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave. – Billie Holiday	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. – Edgar Watson Howe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Make no little plans. They have no Magic to stir Men's blood. – D. B. Hudson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Time is like a river. It flows one direction, But with a little force you can go back. But like a river, Everything you do has a ripple. – Kevin R. Hutson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms. – Robert Green Ingersoll	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Maybe you're right, boss. It all depends on the way you look at it. Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandad' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree' and he, bent as he was, turned round and said, 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied, 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss – Nikos Kazantzakis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two. – Richard Kehl	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The first time you do the impossible, it may take a little longer. – Sheila M. Kelly	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. – John Maynard Keynes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A single day is enough to make us a little larger. – Paul Klee	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that. – Bruce Lee	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. – Max Lerner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The little things are most worthwhile-- quiet word, a look, a smile. – Margaret Lindsey	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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