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Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at the bowling alley. ~Author Unknown


God - the John Doe of philosophy and religion. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927


I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. ~Henry David Thoreau


Thanks are justly due for boons unbought. ~Ovid


It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. ~Attributed to Harry S Truman


A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. ~Jean de La Fontaine


The mad are happy, the sane ignorant; those of us stuck on the sane side of madness or the mad fringe of sanity are in a purgatorial cage. ~Anonymous


And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave. ~Joseph Drake


We do not remember days; we remember moments. ~Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand


But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see.


Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. ~Margaret Laurence


Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras.... As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty. ~William A. Niskanen, "For a Less Responsive Government," Cato Policy Report, 1996


People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life. ~Robert Towne


What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere? ~Erma Bombeck


If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner. ~H.S. Leigh


I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ~Diane Ackerman


Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality. ~Dolores LaChapelle


It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake, Jerusalem


The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. ~Eric Hoffer, The True Believer


Men are like a fine wine. They start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with. ~Author Unknown