Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go." ~Alan Redpath
Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year. ~Sparky Anderson
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. ~Austin O'Malley
In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin - consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged. ~Elizabeth Hardwick, Seduction and Betrayal, 1974
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise. ~Maya Angelou, "Still I Rise," And Still I Rise
And I irritably reflected that you can't take a step from the equator to the poles without running into that suspicious face, those rapacious eyes, those clawlike hands and that vile mouth, which goes breathing the frightful verses of the Bible, in an odor of stale gin, over the charming divinities and adorable myths of naive religions. ~"The Garden," Chapter 5
History is the discipline closest to life; and life is rarely free of contradictions. ~Karl J. Weintraub, Visions of Culture
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. ~Charles Caleb Colton
My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel. ~Gene Perret
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949
Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you. ~Robert Quillen
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. ~Havelock Ellis
Hatreds are the cinders of affection. ~Walter Raleigh
I am woman! I am invincible! I am pooped! ~Author Unknown
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. ~Robert Frost
Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color. ~Author Unknown
Time is making fools of us again. ~J.K. Rowling
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like. ~Lemony Snicket
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. ~James Russell Lowell, "Cambridge Thirty Years Ago," Literary Essays
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. ~Aldous Huxley
The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness. ~Uniek Swain
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. ~Epicurus
His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea. ~Author Unknown
Isn't it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex? ~From the television show The Golden Girls
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