"it wasn't raining when noah built the ark." ~ howard ruff

"a person who carries responsibility also receives blame." ~ kenyan proverb

"a superior doctor prevents sickness; a mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; an inferior doctor treats sickness." ~ chinese proverb

yawn!ö parts 1 and 2 of 5 done. only.

"they had not disgraced themselves... but they had not distinguished themselves either." ~ in g.r.r. martin's "a feast for crows"

"you will never do anything in this world without courage. it is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." ~ aristotle

"sometimes there is no happy choice... only one less grievous than the others." ~ maester aemon targaryen in g.r.r. martin's "a feast for crows"

“a man can bear most anything, if he must. the world is full of horrors. you can fight them, or laugh at them, or look without seeing... go away inside.”

~ jaime lannister, in g.r.r. martin's "a feast for crows"

"trying times are not the times to stop trying." ~ ray owen

"success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." ~ winston churchill

"habits are first cobwebs, then cables." ~ spanish proverb

"improvement begins with i."

~ arnold h. glasgow

"i hear and i forget, i see and i remember. i do and i understand.

~ chinese proverb