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I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, - who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, - and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes - each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs - quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words. ~Laurence Sterne



There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil. ~Pliny, about the opal



The Internet isn't free. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism. ~Brad Shapcott



I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein



The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face. ~D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality, 1971



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



Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. ~Marya Mannes



Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie. ~Henry David Thoreau



Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. ~Herbert Hoover, attributed



Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence. ~Max Amsterdam



It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature. ~Author Unknown



Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. ~Bernard Baruch



Anyone can be an angel. ~Author Unknown



Cats only pretend to be domesticated if they think there's a bowl of milk in it for them. ~Robin Williams



Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this. ~Blaise Pascal



The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose. ~William Simon



Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish. ~James Gorman



You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash



You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ~Dr. Seuss



I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking. ~Jean Cocteau