Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course - the distance between your ears. ~Bobby Jones
Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset. ~Clare Booth Luce
You are my sonshine. ~Author Unknown
A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee. ~Author Unknown
Washington's appointments, when president, were made with a view to gather all the talent of the country in support of the national government; and he bore many things which were personally disagreeable in an endeavor to do this. ~Paul Leicester Ford
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking. ~Earl Wilson
I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for. ~Henry David Thoreau
A daughter is a gift of love. ~Author Unknown
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~Agatha Christie
Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have! ~Don A. Dillman
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. ~Somerset Maugham
Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are. ~Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1899
A family is a patchwork of love. ~Author Unknown
A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ~Paul Valery
The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul. ~Rona Barrett
History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought - two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: Fate
Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness. ~Voltaire
The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet. ~Damon Runyon, "More Than Somewhat," in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."
Spouse: someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single. ~Author Unknown
A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married. ~Kin Hubbard
God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with. ~Henry Ward Beecher
If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done. ~Author Unknown
Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. ~Psalms 119:105
The smell of ink is intoxicating to me - others may have wine, but I have poetry. ~Terri Guillemets
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