Prueba 2

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. -- Henry Cate

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other. -- Oscar Ameringer

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do." -- Joseph Stalin

"You already know enough. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions." - Sven Lindqvist

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. [integral] Maureen Dowd

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. - Rollo May

Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money." -- Jackie Mason

Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. - Chinese proverb

A man who wants to lead an orchestra must turn his back to the crowd. --Max Lucado

"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it is just possible you haven't quite grasped the situation." --Jean Kerr, County of Marin, Office of Emergency Services

"Remember the hunger and thirst of the day of Qiyamah (Judgment) with your hunger and thirst; give alms to the needy and poor, honor your old, show kindness to the young ones, maintain relations with your blood relations; guard your tongues, close your eyes to that which is not permissible for your sight, close your ears to that which is forbidden to hear, show compassion to the orphans of people so compassion may be shown to your orphans." -- From the Koran, regarding Ramadan

"Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is." - Will Rogers

"Start a large foolish project, like Noah! It makes no difference what people think of you." -- Rumi

"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them." --Emerson

"Why use the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the fields?" --Henry Ford

"Sustainability means not turning resources into junk faster than nature can turn junk into resources." -- Steve Goldfinger

April First is the day we remember how we really are the other 364. --Mark Twain

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one. --John Galsworthy

"I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." ---Winnie the Pooh

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known...until it be lost." ---Charles Caleb Colton

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies." ---Mencius

"Friends are God's way of taking care of us." - unknown

"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend." ---Stone Temple Pilots

"I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay." ---Dave Mathews Band

"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them." - unknown

"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say." - unknown

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life." ---Lee Iacocca

"Hold a true friend with both your hands." ---Nigerian Proverb (I took both of Shola's hands in mine and repeated this one to him. He said, "Yes that is an old Nigerian proverb. And another is, 'It takes two hands to shake, one hand cannot shake alone'"). I am reminded that clapping requires two hands too.