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• The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Agesilaus II...
• Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Agesilaus II...
• To make yourself miserable, forget the good things in life and concentrate on the bad.
• I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either.
  Life is just supposed to make you feel. -- Gloria Naylo...
• Why, then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
  o me it [Denmark] is a prison. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act ii, Sc. 2...
• I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise
  but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad. -- E.M. Ciora...
• There are a good number of people who watch delayed action football games on television.
  Already, before they watch, they know who is going to win....
• A MODERN FABLE Aesop's fables and other traditional children's stories involve allegory far too subtle for the youth of today.
  Children need an updated message with contemporary circumstance and plot line, and short enough to suit today's minute attention span....
• Action is the proper fruit of knowledge. -- Thomas Fulle