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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator



Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb



Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus. ~Bob Rubin



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I will not carry a gun.... I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even hari-kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun! ~Hawkeye, "Officer of the Day," original airdate 24 September 1974, written by Laurence Marks, directed by Hy Averback



'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. ~Lord Byron



The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. ~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt



There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough to pay attention to the story. ~Linda Hogan



Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. ~Will Rogers



What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. ~Liz Carpenter



Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ~Henry Ward Beecher



We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed. ~Michel de Montaigne We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed. ~Michel de Montaigne



The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. ~Lewis Carroll



People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Worship," The Conduct of Life, 1860



I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. ~Woody Allen, on the Ku Klux Klan



If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you to go on in spite of all. And so today I still have a dream. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you to go on in spite of all. And so today I still have a dream. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968 If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner? ~As seen on a shirt at veganstore.com



Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern



Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. ~Art Buchwald



You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head. ~Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Marge Simpson



The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. ~Albert Schweitzer

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The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of disease. ~Edward Jenner



Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. ~Corrie ten Boom



Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. ~Jean Burden



The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows. ~Jean Baptiste Moliere, Le Misanthrope



Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. ~Charles Caleb Colton



I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot. ~Abraham Lincoln



More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. ~John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society



With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations. ~Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, 2009 Jan 20, Washington, D.C.



The sun won't shine until you put the umbrella away. Be free. ~Author Unknown



Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. ~Louis Brandeis



Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. ~Author Unknown



What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. ~George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860



If you judge people you have no time to love them. ~Mother Teresa



If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. Sydney Smith



All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. ~George Eliot



'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and obstinacy in a bad one. ~Laurence Sterne



The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil



With this humble instrumentality did it please Providence to prepare the theatre for those events by which a new dispensation of liberty was to be communicated to man. ~Edward Everett



Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ~George Smith Patton

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We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something. ~Sandra Day O'Connor



Good things come to those who bait. ~Author Unknown



Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. ~Lucy Larcom



Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon. ~Kim Elizabeth



Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ~Thomas Fuller



Quotations for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them. ~James Murray



For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. I Timothy 6:7



Philo began laying out his vision for what television could become. Above all else... television would become the world's greatest teaching tool. Illiteracy would be wiped out. The immediacy of television was the key. As news happened viewers would watch it unfold live; no longer would we have to rely on people interpreting and distorting the news for us. We would be watching sporting events and symphony orchestras. Instead of going to the movies, the movies would come to us. Television would also bring about world peace. If we were able to see people in other countries and learn about our differences, why would there be any misunderstandings? War would be a thing of the past. ~Evan I. Schwartz, The Last Lone Inventor, about Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television



Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease. ~Roul Turley



The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. ~T.S. Eliot, quoted in Time, 23 October 1950



No child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays in The Art of Writing



Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ~Walt Streightiff There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~Beverly Sills



The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. ~G.K. Chesterton



Beer is the cause and solution to all of life's problems. ~Homer Simpson



Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: "Great God, grant that twice two be not four." ~Ivan Turgenev



It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else. ~Havelock Ellis



We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. ~David Sarnoff



The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Who ever thought up the word "Mammogram?" Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone. ~Jan King

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Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money. ~Author Unknown



Don't do what you'll have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb



Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. ~Maurice Chevalier, New York Times, 9 October 1960



Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. ~Emily Dickinson



Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes. ~William Shakespeare, Henry V



Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed. ~William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693



Observations always involve theory. ~Edwin Hubble



Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. ~G.B. Trudeau



The commonest form of malnutrition in the western world is obesity. ~Mervyn Deitel



Sometimes the best man for the job isn't. ~Author Unknown



Laying in bed this morning contemplating how amazing it would be if somehow Oscar Wilde and Mae West could twitter from the grave. ~Dita Von Teese (@DitaVonTeese), May 7, 2009 on Twitter



Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. ~Jim Davis



The world is hugged by the faithful arms of volunteers. ~Terri Guillemets



You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket



When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Optimists are nostalgic about the future. ~Chicago Tribune



If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. ~Titus Maccius Plautus



Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain

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Do you know why grandchildren are always so full of energy? They suck it out of their grandparents. ~Gene Perret



People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. ~Leo J. Burke



You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire. ~Larry Brown



Poetry is frosted fire. ~J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com



The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow



Chlorine: the breakfast of champions! ~Author Unknown



Every moment of pleasure in life has to be purchased by an equal moment of pain. ~Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Up the Long Ladder," Danilo O'Dell



Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned. ~Henry Drummond



Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. ~Kurt Goldstein



When I skip, I have no worries. ~Carolyn Tyler, as posted on iskip.com



To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States. You don't hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood. ~Gore Vidal



Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~Norman Vincent Peale



An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb



You heard about the Chinese godfather? He made them an offer they couldn't understand. ~Jason Cahill, The Sopranos, "Meadowlands," original airdate 31 January 1999, spoken by the character Corrado "Junior" Soprano



Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb



If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. ~George Meredith



I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian.... That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday. ~Will Rogers



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



Depressed? Of course we're all depressed. We've been so quickly, violently, and irreconcilably plucked from nature, from physical labor, from kinship and village mentality, from every natural and primordial anti-depressant. The further society "progresses," the grander the scale of imbalance. Just as fluoride is put in water to prevent dental caries, we'll soon find government mandating Prozac in our water to prevent mental caries. ~M. Robin D'Antan

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If God wanted us to be brave, why did He give us legs? ~Marvin Kitman



The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again. ~George Miller



Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The Main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. ~John Steinbeck, 10 November 1958



That word "lesbian" sounds like a disease. And straight men know because they're sure that they're the cure. ~Denise McCanles



Why wait for the weekend to have fun ~Loesje, loesje.org



Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos. ~Thomas A. Bailey



So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. ~William Blackstone



It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ~Jacob Bronowski



The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. ~Don Marquis



Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself. ~Mae West



People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. ~Leo J. Burke



This is what the Republicans are calling a Wizard of Oz ticket. You see, Cheney needs a heart, Bush needs a brain. ~Jay Leno



For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin



Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish. ~Herbert Hoover



Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. ~Author Unknown



There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that. ~Harold Robbins



Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. ~Georges-Louis Leclerc



I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons. ~Adrienne Rich

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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. ~Charles de Gaulle



The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



A day is Eternity's seed, and we are its Gardeners. ~Erika Harris, lifeblazing.com



I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. ~Mark Twain



The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood. ~Elliot Chaze



Literature is the question minus the answer. ~Roland Barthes



Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. ~Charles A. Lindbergh, Reader's Digest, July 1972



God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. ~Isak Dinesen



You might be a firefighter if the microwave goes off and you run out of the house thinking it was your pager. ~Author Unknown



We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage. ~James Russell Lowell



Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse. ~Brian Eno, Wired, January 1999



Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown



No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. ~George Bernard Shaw



A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. ~Proverbs 17:22



No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen



In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty. ~Imbesi's Conservation of Filth Law



Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie. ~Jim Davis



At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac



Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon

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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. ~Vauvenargues



Perhaps only his sense of humor and irony can save him when he hears the most powerful nation in the world speaking of his aggression as it drops thousands of bombs on a poor weak nation more than eight thousand miles away from its shores. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., about Ho Chi Minh, Beyond Vietnam lecture, 4 April 1968



Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. ~George Bernard Shaw



No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~Oscar Wilde



The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. ~Joe Garagiola, Baseball is a Funny Game



Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ~John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929



Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! ~Hamilton Wright Mabie



Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. ~George Bernard Shaw



Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites" ~Larry Hardiman



What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Art is an adventure that never seems to end. ~Jason, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999



To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



Prayer is the coin paid to Gratitude. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. ~Garrison Keillor



Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. ~Robert Orben



Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. ~Edmund Burke



While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. ~Eugene V. Debs, Cleveland, 1917



Our past is like a footprint. It only confirms we were there. No burden on our future does it bear. Bring the rain, clear the pane of clutter. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

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Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust. ~Don Herold



The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him. ~William McGill



You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. ~Jeanette Rankin



What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. ~Agnes M. Pahro



The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place. ~David and Leigh Eddings



Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself. ~Martin H. Fischer



To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than. ~Oscar Holmolka



They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. ~Oliver Goldsmith



The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain



After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, you begin to worry about history. ~Author Unknown



Dogs eat. Cats dine. ~Ann Taylor



For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. ~Richard P. Feynman



A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. ~Golda Meir



Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. ~Napoleon Bonaparte, Discours de Lyon, 1771



Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves. ~Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man



The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash. ~Jim Murray



Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs - by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air. ~Alistair Cooke



I don't think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while. ~John Gould



Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. ~Buddha Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. ~Buddha



I wish life had an Undo function. ~Author Unknown

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