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  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. -- Somerset Maugham
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink. -- Rudyard Kipling
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    More is more. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    My candle burns at both ends;
    It will not last the night;
    But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends--
    It gives a lovely light!
    -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time, madame: That is all there is to distinguish us from the other animals. -- Beaumarchais
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    The only wise thing about having a third martini is that you're not yet having a fourth. --Eno Putain
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. -- Frank Herbert
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    Winston Churchill's habit of guzzling a quart or two a day of good cognac is what saved civilization from the luftwaffe, Hegelian logic, Wagnerian love deaths and potato pancakes. -- Charles Mccabe
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francois Rabelais
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry. -- John Jensen
  • Jovialation
    Jovialation Posts: 7,632 Member
    "Should anyone mourn the deceased, then he must also mourn the unborn.
    Death is neither good nor evil, for good or evil can only be something that actually exists." -Seneca
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    Last night we went to a Chinese dinner at six and a French dinner at nine, and I can feel the sharks' fins navigating unhappily in the Burgundy. -- Peter Fleming
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    Never order food in excess of your body weight. -- Erma Bombeck
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indegestion, but the first causes death. --Giovanni Casanova
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. -- Charles D!ckens :smile:
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything. -- Victor Hugo
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    But thou, O lord, are a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. -- Psalms 3:3
  • nolachick
    nolachick Posts: 3,278 Member
    wow is this a thread just between "notsurprised" and him/herself.

    lol sorry just found it funny that 95% of the posts were yours.
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? -- Russell Hoban
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible unquiet fuss. -- Salman Rushdie
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! -- Charles D!ckens
  • nolachick
    nolachick Posts: 3,278 Member
    lol :laugh:
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    Rule Number 1 is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule Number 2 is, it's all small stuff. And if you can't fight and you can't flee, flow. --Robert Eliot
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    lol :laugh:

    I've learned.:wink:
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older. -- Hans Selye
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    The process of living is the process of reacting to stress. -- Stanley Sarnoff
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry. -- John Burroughs
  • NotSurprised
    NotSurprised Posts: 8,083 Member
    I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. -- Douglas Adams
  • NotSurprised
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    There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad. -- Garson Kanin
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