When a dog runs at you, whistle for him. ~Henry David Thoreau
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. ~Mark Twain
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ~Winston Churchill
In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. ~Amiel, Journal, 17 December 1856
What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. ~William Carlos Williams
A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author Unknown
Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you. ~Reggie Jackson
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident. ~Arthur Schopenhauer
He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless. ~Peter Walker
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ~Schumann
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. ~George Santayana, "War Shrines," Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies, 1922
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ~Doug Larson
This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought. ~Samuel Johnson
Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made. ~Author Unknown
Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers. ~Pam Brown
My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid - milk. ~Rynn Berry, quoted in Joanne Stepaniak, The Vegan Sourcebook, 1998
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I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees. ~Williston Fish, "A Last Will," 1898
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. ~Barry Goldwater
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. ~Ken Kesey
Take care that no one hates you justly. ~Publilius Syrus
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. ~Laurence J. Peter
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