A group of quotes and proverbs

1.Nurture your mind with great thoughts;to believe in the heroic makes heroes.-Benjamin Disraeli
2.Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.-Nathaniel Emmons
3.Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is.-C.S.Lewis
4.A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.-Jane Austen
5.I have not failed.I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.-Thomas Edison
6.If you're not living on the edge,you're taking up too much space.-Unknown
7.Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand;it is the privilege of
human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.-Wendell Berry
8.The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.-Glaser and Way
9.Ratio of Americans who die from tobacco-related illnesses each year to number who are murdered-17:1-Harper's Index,1998
10.The young do not know enough to be prudent;and,therefore ,they attempt the impossible -and achieve it,generation after generation.-Pearl S.Buck
11.If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on to the other end of the chain.-Toni Morrison
12.Express yourself;don't repress yourself.-Madonna
13.One of the first things you will find as you begin to share with the world this beautiful ,wild-hearted ,lovingly developed gift of your personal creativity is that the world wants no part of it.-Jim Borgman,cartoonist