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#56167 - 02/13/02 09:59 AM Re: Yiddish maxims
Sparteye Pooh-Bah Registered: 01/05/01 Posts: 1773	I don't understand the Rather than die of hunger, I'd sooner eat a roast maxim. Heh. I thought that maybe he was referring to my mother-in-law's cooking.
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#56168 - 02/13/02 10:10 AM Re: Yiddish maxims
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	I'd sooner eat a roast maxim AUGH! Don't eat my sweet Maxie!!!
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#56169 - 02/13/02 12:30 PM Re: Yiddish maxims
Chemeng1992 member Registered: 08/03/01 Posts: 131 Loc: Alabama	I don't hear 'your sweet Maxie' opposing the idea!
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#56170 - 02/13/02 01:48 PM Re: words to live by
WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/13/01 Posts: 4189 Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N...	He who hesitates is lost. If sometimes we don't get lost, there's a chance we may never find our way. The big thing is to do it. --Kit Karson We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses! Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime. A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of a little courage. We grow too soon alt, und too late schmart. --Pennsylvania Dutch Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. --Madame Curie There but for the grace of God go I. --St. Francis of Assissi Never judge another man until you have walked a mile in his moccasins. --Native American Whenever they call me a dreamer, I think of Walt Disney and smile. Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. --Meister Eckhardt Enjoy life!...you might have been a barnacle. Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it. --Wm Shakespeare The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. --Charles Du Bois Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. --Sir J. Mackintosh Love the one you're with. --Stephen Stills
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#56171 - 02/13/02 02:16 PM Re: words to live by
Sparteye Pooh-Bah Registered: 01/05/01 Posts: 1773	It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. -- Somebody Stupid darkness! -- Lucy VanPelt
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#56172 - 02/13/02 02:25 PM Re: words to live by
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	Stupid darkness! Without darkness there would be no light. -- Somebody Else
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#56173 - 02/13/02 03:19 PM Re: words to live by
Rapunzel enthusiast Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 328 Loc: Eastern Pennsylvania	We grow too soon alt, und too late schmart. --Pennsylvania Dutch I've seen this countless times in cheap touristy booklets of "PA Dutch" or "Amish" sayings, yet I've never heard a genuine Pennsylvania Dutchman/woman actually say it. How about you, Byb?
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#56174 - 02/13/02 03:47 PM Re: words to live by
of troy Carpal Tunnel Registered: 10/17/00 Posts: 5400 Loc: rego park	Every one brings joy to my life, some when they arrive, some when they depart. i used to have this as a poster in my office.. and i might yet print it up in fancy fonts, and frame it.. _________________________ my other obsession
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#56175 - 02/13/02 04:13 PM Re: words to live by
WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/13/01 Posts: 4189 Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N...	I never met a man I didn't like. --Will Rogers I never liked a man I didn't meet. --Roger Wills
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#56176 - 02/13/02 05:24 PM Re: words to live by
TheFallibleFiend veteran Registered: 01/23/02 Posts: 1523 Loc: Virginia, USA	Since someone has asked me what it means to "shoot for the moon if you do hit a potato," I will say that I take it to roughly mean "it's the journey that counts, and not the destination." k
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