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A day came - of almost terrified delight and wonder - when the poor widowed girl pressed a child upon her breast.... a little boy, as beautiful as a cherub. What a miracle it was to hear its first cry! How she laughed and wept over it - how love, and hope, and prayer woke again in her bosom as the baby nestled there.... It was her life which the baby drank in from her bosom. ~William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter XXXV


God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~J.G. Holland


Thank you for Not Smoking. Cigarette smoke is the residue of your pleasure. It contaminates the air, pollutes my hair and clothes, not to mention my lungs. This takes place without my consent. I have a pleasure, also. I like a beer now and then. The residue of my pleasure is urine. Would you be annoyed if I stood on a chair and pissed on your head and your clothes without your consent? ~Sign from Ken's Magic Shop


Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. ~Andre Gide


There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. ~Washington Irving


Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive. ~Robert Lynd


What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here. ~Melissa Etheridge, "Silent Legacy," Yes I Am, 1993


All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. ~Proverbs 15:15


No one ever excused his way to success. ~Dave Del Dotto


It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich


Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. ~Proverbs 13:12


Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. ~Marya Mannes


A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head. ~Ethel Wilson


So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne


If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~Anne Bradstreet


Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little. ~Hannah More (Thanks, Steven)


Truth fears no questions. ~Unknown


Avoid fruit and nuts. You are what you eat. ~Jim Davis


The purpose of primary education is the development of your weak characteristics; the purpose of university education, the development of your strong. ~Nevin Fenneman