Ten fresh quotes and proverbs for a cold Monday

1.God loved the birds and invented trees.Man loved the birds and invented cages.-Jacques Deval,writer and director(1895-1972)
2.It's imperative that we-----recognize that condoms no more cause sex than umbrellas cause rain.-Nicholas D.Kristof,in THE NEW YORK TIMES,October 1,2003.
3.Judge each day not by the harvest you reap,but by the seeds you plant.-Robert Louis Stevenson
4.Our business in life is not to succeeed,but to continue to fail in good spirits.-Robert Louis Stevenson
5.If thought corrupts language,language can also corrupt thought.-George Orwell
6.A person who seeks help for a friend,while needy himself,will be answered first.-The Talmud
7.If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles,one would hardly see anybody.-Agatha Christie
8.The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.-Joanna Macy,writer and teacher(b.1929)
9.Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian philosophy.-Theodor Adorno,philosopher and composer (1903-1969)
10.In some circumstances,the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.-Margaret Halsey,novelist (1910-1997).