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The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite! ~Walter Winchell


The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. ~Peter F. Drucker


Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ~Arthur C. Clarke


Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house. ~Author Unknown


Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard


Every mile is two in winter. ~George Herbert


The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness. ~Henry David Thoreau


If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare. ~William Arnot


One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. ~Jack Penn


Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ~George Eliot


History begins in novel and ends in essay. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay


Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club?... Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam. ~Alfred Whitney Griswold


If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything. ~Michael Bamberger


People have become as processed as food. ~Astrid Alauda


The inventor of soda crackers has a place in hell. ~Martin H. Fischer


Truth is no Doctoresse, she takes no degrees at Paris or Oxford... but oftentimes to such an one as myself, an Idiota or common person, no great things, melancholizing in woods where waters are, quiet places by rivers, fountains, whereas the silly man expecting no such matter, thinketh only how best to delectate and refresh his mynde continually with Natura her pleasaunt scenes, woods, water-falls, or Art her statelie gardens, parks, terraces, Belvideres, on a sudden the goddesse herself Truth has appeared, with a shyning lyghte, and a sparklyng countenance, so as yee may not be able lightly to resist her. ~Charles Lamb


Friends are God's apology for relations. ~Hugh Kingsmill


The more I see of men, the more I like dogs. ~Madame de Stael