Parenting

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Whoever said, “Money can’t buy happiness,” never sent his children to summer camp.
— Anonymous

Almost every child would learn to write sooner if allowed to do his homework in wet cement.
— Anonymous

I’m trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week.
— Erma Bombeck

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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
— Thomas Carlyle

Journalism

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The best headlines never fi
— Bernard Levin

Sometimes the media writes what I say and not what I mean.
— Pedro Guerrero

Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business is to separate the wheat from the chaff and see that the chaff is printed.
— Elbert Hubbard

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I know the secret to success. It is my friend, Discipline.
— Bella Karolyi

Music

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The bagpipes sound exactly the same when you have finished learning them as when you start.
— Thomas Beecham

You know you’re going out with someone too young for you when they say, “Did you know Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?”
— Anonymous

Highbrow: A person who can listen to the William Tell overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
— Anonymous

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My father always used to say, “Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.” Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters.
— Desmond Tutu

Intellectual, Compliments and Mountains

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Intellectual: A guy who can keep his mind on a book at a beach.
— Anonymous

Some people pay a compliment as if they expect a receipt.
— Kin Hubbard

Mountain climbers say they climb mountains “because they’re there.” Somebody ought to let them know that that’s the same reason most of us go around them.
— Anonymous

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There are hazards in everything one does; but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.
— Shirley Williams

Hockey

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It’s like going out with the best-looking girl in high school. You know she’s going to dump you eventually. But still, you’ve got to go for it.
— Gord Stellick, on being the Maple Leafs’ GM under Harold Ballard

Geez, I hate to waste my goal in a practice game.
— Craig Ludwig, on scoring in an exhibition game after scoring only six goals in five seasons

Goaltending is a normal job. Sure! How would you like it in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you?
— Jacques Plante

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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills and uses those skills to accomplish his goals. Even when I lost, I learned what my weaknesses were, and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses into strengths.
— Larry Bird

Teens

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No need to worry about your teenagers when they’re not at home. A national survey revealed that they all go to the place – “out” – and they all do the same thing – “nothing.”
— Bruce Lansky

It isn’t what a teenager knows that worries his parents. It’s how he found out.
— Ann Landers

Signs you may be living with a teenager: your car insurance suddenly costs more than your car, your gas tank is always empty and your laundry basket is always full.
— W. Bruce Cameron

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The New Testament is the best book the world has ever known or will know.
— Charles Dickens

Innovation

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The trouble with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.
— David Hockney

Always be wary of any helpful item that weights less than its operating manual.
— Terry Bratchett

Gadget: Any mechanical device that performs a kitchen task in one-twentieth the time it takes to find it.
— Anonymous

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God is too wise to be mistaken. God is too wise to be unkind. When you can’t trace His hand, that’s when you must learn to trust His heart.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon