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Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson, "Parting"



My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. ~A.A. Milne



A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~Attributed to Heather Pryor



Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution. ~Robert Zend



I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Player Piano



If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, "Gramma, do you know how you and God are alike?" I mentally polished my halo while I asked, "No, how are we alike?" "You're both old," he replied. ~Author Unknown



I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom. ~Terri Guillemets



A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys. ~Michael Oakeshott, On History



Be a blood and organ donor. All it costs is a little love. ~Author Unknown



Let me ask you something, what is not art? ~Author Unknown



The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. ~Andrew Carnegie



When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes. ~Paige Rense



The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ~Marcus Aurelius



The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country. ~Hardy Amies



When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ~Kahlil Gibran The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ~Kahlil Gibran



It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy. ~Author Unknown

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We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. ~John Stuart Mill



Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. ~Author Unknown



The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant. If omitted in one place, they turn up in another. When a Bostonian "pahks" his "cah," the lost r's migrate southwest, causing a Texan to "warsh" his car and invest in "erl wells." ~Author Unknown



We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on! ~Author Unknown



He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick



There's something beautifully soothing about a fact - even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means. ~Daniel J. Boorstin



Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. ~John Kenneth Galbraith



Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. ~Author Unknown



You live and learn. At any rate, you live. ~Douglas Adams



Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ~Plato, Ion



Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it. ~Benjamin Lichtenberg



If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. ~Sam Snead



It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity. ~Frederick Phillips



A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ~Samuel McChord Crothers, "Every Man's Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else" The Dame School of Experience, 1920



Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. ~Thomas Dekker



Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach. ~A. Kerr



If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. ~Sam Levenson



Human-like creatures have existed on this planet for as long as four million years, and for roughly 99 percent of this time, they were hunters and gatherers.... This means that when we're sitting down to lunch, our stone-age bodies "expect" to be fed the same types and ratios of fat that nourished our cave-dwelling ancestors. When we eat French fries cooked in partially hydrogenated vegetable oil instead of wild plants; or wolf down a fat-laden hamburger heaped with mayonnaise instead of meat from a lean, free-ranging game animal, our bodies register the insult. ~Artemis P. Simopoulos and Jo Robinson, The Omega Diet, 1999

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Strength will grow from the heart, blossom as results, and wither in others' hearts as seeds. ~Mikhael Dominico



We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us. ~John Kenneth Galbraith



As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. ~Antisthenes



Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that. ~Li Ka Shing



Wisdom begins at the end. ~Daniel Webster



The best thing about doing needlepoint for very small children is that they are so uncritical. The don't say things like, "I see you've missed some stitches over here on the leg, was that intentional?" or "Was this creature blinded in a fight?" They will clasp it in their little arms and love it besottedly, inseparably as the thing becomes more and more rancid. ~Carole Berman and Jennifer Lazarus



For years it has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. ~Erma Bombeck, about her wedding ring



Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. ~Diane de Poitiers



Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. ~Adam Clarke



One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard



A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb



A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. ~Hazel Nicholson



Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. ~Hosea Ballou



A house needs a grandma in it. ~Louisa May Alcott



I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play. ~Simon Gray I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. ~George McGovern



A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open. ~Gerald Raferty



Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children. ~Sam Austin



One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. ~Dale Carnegie



If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. ~Betty Reese

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quotes on love and life

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ~Samuel McChord Crothers, "Every Man's Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else" The Dame School of Experience, 1920



I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. ~English professor, Ohio University



Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb



The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971



If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. ~Lysander Spooner, Trial by Jury



Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk



Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. Crowley Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. Crowley Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. Crowley



To Crystal, hair was the most important thing on earth. She would never get married because you couldn't wear curlers in bed. ~Edna O'Brien



I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~Sara Teasdale, "The Philosopher"



Women prefer men who have something tender about them - especially the legal kind. ~Kay Ingram



Anger and folly walk cheek by jole. ~Benjamin Franklin



Love is what you've been through with somebody. ~James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960



The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law



Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams. ~Douglas Jerrold



We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. ~George Eliot



Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. ~Author Unknown



When words leave off, music begins. ~Heinrich Heine



My husband is a human pincushion. ~Author Unknown



He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skill of the physician. ~Chinese Proverb

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Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. ~Washington Irving



The phrase "working mother" is redundant. ~Jane Sellman



It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. ~Thomas Jefferson



If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed. ~Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin



Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. ~John Wesley



It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood. ~Bernand De Voto, Fortune, June 1947



Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. ~Usman B. Asif



A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. ~Bill Vaughan



Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal. ~Jay Leno



I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. ~Mark Twain I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. ~Mark Twain



You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. ~Werner Erhard



I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets. ~Bernard Keble Sandwell



Skip like the wind! ~Author Unknown



He is one of those giant figures, of whom there are very few in history, who lose their nationality in death. ~David Lloyd George



Men will always delight in a woman whose voice is lined with velvet. ~Brendan Francis



Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb



Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. ~Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination, 1950



Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Night Flight, 1931, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert



My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so. ~Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade

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Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln. ~Will Rogers



No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. ~H.L. Mencken



Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. ~Aldous Leonard Huxley, Texts and Pretexts, 1932



Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ~Michael Leunig



The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ~Thomas Carlyle



Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink. ~Mark Twain, Note-Book, 1935



We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. ~Marcel Proust



Fame is proof that the people are gullible. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~George Santayana



A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray



Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ~John Kenneth Galbraith



The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward



Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ~Gerald Brenan



Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. ~Max Eastman



As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do. ~Zachary Scott



He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick



Skipping subtracts years from your heart, adds joy to your life, multiplies your happiness, and divides your stress. It's a prime exercise, and I count it among one of my greatest blessings. ~Jessi Lane Adams



I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood. ~George Carlin



The tassel's worth the hassle! ~Author Unknown



Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit. ~Mme. de Puixieux

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Science is simply common sense at its best. ~Thomas Huxley



My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. ~Bette Midler



Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. ~John Anthony Ciardi



Sure there's no "I" in "team," but there is a "ME"! ~Author Unknown Sure you can psychoanalyze! But as Baehr used to say, why bother to sort garbage? ~Martin H. Fischer



All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. ~Theodore M. Hesburgh



Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way around. ~David Lodge, The British Museum Is Falling Down, 1965



It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer? ~Lord Byron



There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. ~Albert Schweitzer



Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. ~Jeffrey Borenstein



Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. ~Mother Teresa



What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. ~Gertrude Jekyll



Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde



Is there a point at which every Sunday during the NFL season ceases to make a man feel like a kid on Christmas morning? ~Mike Alexander, MADfit.com



Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever. ~Bess Streeter Aldrich



Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ~George F. Will



The best time to make friends is before you need them. ~Ethel Barrymore



As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. ~Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism



The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~Pablo Picasso



If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops. ~Kelvin Throop



To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger. ~"The Mission," Chapter 2

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Gone golfin'... be back dark thirty. ~Author Unknown



It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real. ~Author Unknown



Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road. ~Henry Ward Beecher



We've begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. ~Gloria Steinem



Speed is not your fastest, but your slowest man. No back can run faster than his interference. ~Jock Sutherland



Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices. ~George Bernard Shaw



The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988



Freedom lies in being bold. ~Robert Frost



We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. ~Edward R. Murrow



I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982



It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in. ~Arthur Christopher Benson



An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. ~Rod Laver



Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. ~Samuel Johnson



Individual possession is the great entering wedge, which has split society into eight hundred million fragments.... It virtually, practically, and theoretically denies the brotherhood of man. ~Hiram Stafford, The Liberator, 8 September 1844



It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it. ~Julia Child



Peace begins with a smile. ~Mother Teresa



A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life. ~Lee Drake



Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb