"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?"

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Source : Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984) See Modern Proverbs 41

Edgar Bergen

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“Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk.”

Source : 1983 Stone, Paper, Knife,'Stone, Paper, Knife'.
“Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.”
“As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.”
“Drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.”
“If you ever have to sacrifice something good, have faith that God will reward you with something GREAT”
“Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.”
“Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.”
“Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.”

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