Don't do what you'll have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of. ~D.M. Thomas
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times. ~Voltaire, L'Ingenu
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. ~Honore de Balzac
I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it. ~Thomas Jackson
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. ~Victor Hugo
Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. ~George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
So much fabric, so little time! Or, sew much fabric, sew little time! ~Author Unknown
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~Norman Vincent Peale
The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. ~Will and Ariel Durant, The Reformation
The more I see of man, the more I like dogs. ~Mme. de Stael
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ~William Wordsworth
You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun. ~Antonio Porchia
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935
Your safety gears are between your ears. ~Author Unknown
We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. ~Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925
Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? ~Erica Jong
You can never predict when that unknown torpedo will come out of the dark and smash the price of a stock. ~Ralph Seger
I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
If you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. ~Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. ~Harold Bloom
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton
History is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick. ~Max Nordau, The Interpretation of History
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