I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. ~Frederick Douglass
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. ~Edgar Allen Poe
If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport. ~George Winters
Some men have a den in their home, while others just growl all over the house. ~Author Unknown
I think war might be God's way of teaching us geography. ~Paul Rodriguez
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window. ~Burton Rascoe
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ~Abraham Lincoln
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. ~Abbott Joseph Liebling, "Do You Belong in Journalism?" New Yorker, 4 May 1960
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar. ~Anton Chekhov
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. ~Phyllis Diller
You might be a fireman if you've ever said, "she's hot tonight" and not been talking about a girl. ~Author Unknown
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. ~Martha Graham
One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard
Labradors are lousy watchdogs. They usually bark when there is a stranger about, but it is an expression of unmitigated joy at the chance to meet somebody new, not a warning. ~Norman Strung
Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. ~The Koran
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670
With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. ~Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines, 1960
A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend. ~Author Unknown
The most sensitive members of the human and animal populations are much like the canaries in the mines. They are the first to show distress, often becoming ill for unknown reasons. They provide the distant early warning for us all. ~Karilee and Richard Shames, Feeling Fat, Fuzzy, or Frazzled?, 2005
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. ~P.J. O'Rourke
Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. ~Compton MacKenzie
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck
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