The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ~Vladimir Nabokov
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bowling alley is the poor man's country club. ~Sanford Hansell
Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. ~Maya Angelou
A kiss seals two souls for a moment in time. ~Levende Waters
If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. ~Oscar Wilde
Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. ~Mary Manin Morrissey
Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil. ~Byron, Hours of Idleness
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. ~Jean Paul Richter
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ~Erma Bombeck, I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression
Perhaps nobody has changed the course of history as much as the historians. ~Franklin P. Jones
Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. ~Mortimer Collins
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. ~Cullen Hightower
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. ~Epicurus
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. ~Milton Friedman We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. ~Milton Friedman
Skipping is to fly like an angel. ~Opal Montagne
Be obscure clearly. ~E.B. White
Our bodies are our gardens - our wills are our gardeners. ~William Shakespeare
If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. ~Confucius
Michael W. Fox, vice-president of the Humane Society, said that, "to call an animal with whom you share your life a 'pet,' is reminiscent of men's magazines where you (a figure of speech, don't take it personally) have the Pet of the Month." It is supposed that the continued use of the word "pet" to designate dogs or cats threatens to reduce their level of respect to the current status of twentieth century North American women. Now that's radical. ~The McGill Red Herring
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ~John F. Kennedy
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ~Jesse Jackson
The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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