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"The old pool shooter had won many a game in his life. But now it was time to hang up the cue. When he did, all the other cues came crashing to the floor. 'Sorry,' he said with a smile."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"I wish I lived on a planet that had two suns---regular sun and 'rogue' sun. That way, when somebody asked me what time it was, I'd say, 'Regular time?' And they'd say, 'Yeah.' And I'd say, 'Sorry, all I have is rogue time.' It'd be fun to be a stuck-up rogue-time guy."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"If you lived in the Dark Ages, and you were a catapult operator, I bet the most common question people would ask is, 'Can't you make it shoot farther?' No. I'm sorry. That's as far as it shoots."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them."	Jerome Klapka Jerome
"Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear: It soothes his sorrow, heals his wounds, And drives away his fears."	John Newton
"Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow."	Joseph Conrad
"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."	Kahlil Gibran
"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."	Kahlil Gibran
"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."	Kahlil Gibran
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."	Kahlil Gibran
"He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy."	Kahlil Gibran
"If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, 'Sorry, Mom, but nobody beats me.'"	Leo Durocher
"I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye."	Leonard
"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little."	Max Lerner
"Sing away sorrow, cast away care."	Miguel de Cervantes
"The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep."	Psalm 127:2 Bible
"For his anger lasts only a brief moment, and his good favor restores one's life. One may experience sorrow during the night, but joy arrives in the morning."	Psalms 30:5 Bible
"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears."	Rene Descartes
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