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It actually giggles at you as it goes by. ~Rick Monday, on Phil Niekro's knuckleball, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 1 August 1983



It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting. ~Jean Paul Gaultier



The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. ~Croesus of Lydia



There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect. ~Adlai Stevenson



If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong. ~Pat Parelli



The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning - and the younger generation doesn't think much of it either. ~John J. Welsh



There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. ~Alan J. Perlis



I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. ~Thomas Moore



Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. ~Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin



America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness. ~Aurora Raigne



I cannot afford to waste my time making money. ~Louis Agassiz



Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee. ~Stephanie Piro



It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. ~Karl Popper, Unended Quest



To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~Confucius, Analects To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~Confucius, Analects



Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ~Anatole France



It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. ~Aesop



The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. ~Wendell Phillips, attributed