Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. ~Henry Beston
A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - especially when she's taking a nap. ~Author Unknown
Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes. ~James Russell Lowell
A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence. ~Cathy Crimmins
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. ~Thomas de Quincey
To me, being an American means feeling safe. ~Currielene Armstrong
There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self. ~Ben Hecht
Everything in moderation, including moderation. ~Author Unknown
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ~Harold Ross
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it. ~Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. ~Aldous Huxley
Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. ~Abraham Lincoln
The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in its destiny, that it has ceased to aspire to greatness, and has retired from history to pet itself. ~Henry Fairlie, quoted in Conservation Foundation Letter, November 1981
Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Cockfighting was illegal in Oklahoma until 1963, when a judge ruled that chickens are not animals and therefore unprotected by anticruelty laws. ~U.S. News & World Report, 6 December 1999
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. ~Ansel Adams
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. ~Frank Gillette Burgess
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. ~Charles Dudley Warner
One does not have to sleep with, or even touch, someone who has paid for your meal. All those obligations are hereby rendered null and void, and any man who doesn't think so needs a quick jab in the kidney. ~Cynthia Heimel, Sex Tips for Girls, 1983
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan
The rule was "No autopsy, no foul." ~Stewart Granger, on the pickup games of his childhood
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