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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. – Mignon McLaughlin
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. – David McClure Brinkley
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. – David Brink
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. – Sir Francis Bacon
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. – H. L. Mencken
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. – George Iles
A supervisor strives to see the light at the end of the tunnel and hope’s it’s not the light of an oncoming train. A bigger problem is to be a supervisor on the train and find that the tunnel has not been started yet. A failing company is often referred to as a train wreck! – Eugene
A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things. – Publilius Syrus
A swan is out of place among crows, a lion among bulls, a horse among asses, and a wise man among fools. – Burmese Proverb
A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. – Euripides
A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. – Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing." – Sir Arnold Bax
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing. – Sir Arnold Bax
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. – Burt Bacharach
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack. – Lois McMaster Bujold
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. – Washington Irving
A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. – Washington Irving
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. – Jessamyn West
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops. – Henry Adams
A teacher affects eternity; He can never tell where his influence stops. – Henry Adams
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. – Thomas Carruthers
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. – Horace Mann
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. – Michael Winner
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. – Heywood Broun
A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth. – O.G. Sutton

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