If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, how he must hate the taxpayer! ~John Andrew Holmes
Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. ~Greg Egan, "Distress"
We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. ~Ruth E. Renkel
I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy. ~Ellery Queen
Only think of two things - the gun and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell until you break the other. ~Sam Mussabini
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.... There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes. ~Alistair Cooke
The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew. ~Author Unknown
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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~Newt Gingrich
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ~George S. Patton
No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. ~Murray Banks No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. ~Murray Banks
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~Alvin Toffler
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. ~Margaret Mead
Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers. ~William Galvin
I have laboriously collected this cento out of diverse writers. I have wronged no authors but given every man his own.... Bees do little harm and damage no one in extracting honey; I can say of myself, whom have I injured? The matter is theirs most part, and yet mine.... it becomes something different in its new setting. ~Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy
Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light. ~J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com
How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible? ~John W. Draper
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. ~William H. Seward
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. ~Wendell Johnson
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1836
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ~Mother Teresa
I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 19
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