Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much? ~Kin Hubbard
When you're a nurse you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will touch yours. ~Author Unknown
Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. ~Edgar Allan Poe
The world is not divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning sexual behavior the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. ~Alfred Kinsey, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, 1948
It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. ~Calvin
Oh, why can't we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills? I mean, flee to my lodge in the hills. ~S.J. Perelman, Will B. Johnstone, and Arthur Sheekman, Monkey Business
Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. ~Oscar Wilde
I believe everybody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string. ~Scott Adams
One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball. ~Don Carter
I owe my solitude to other people. ~Alan Watts
In cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. ~John Perry Barlow
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. ~James A. Michener
Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world. ~Bruce Barton
We sleep peacefully at night, cradled by the big strong hands of America. ~Val Saintsbury
A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer. ~Author Unknown
I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be perched there on the silver log, pointing out to sea, like a sort of soul-compass, after I was dead. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 12
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. ~Clifton Fadiman
Faith is spiritualized imagination. ~Henry Ward Beecher
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. ~Jonathan Swift He was a common man expanded into giant proportions; well acquainted with the people, he placed his hand on the beating pulse of the nation, judged of its disease and was ready with a remedy. ~Joshua Speed
The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. ~Edward Thomas
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not. ~Mark Twain The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage. ~Peggy Ryan
Fields can lie fallow, but we can't; we have less time. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. ~Joseph Baretti, quoted by James Boswell, 1766, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson
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