Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Drift-Wood
The average golfer doesn't play golf. He attacks it. ~Jack Burke
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. ~John 1:9
The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists. ~William J. Clinton, 1997
My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it. ~Koos Brandt
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. ~Groucho Marx
Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree. ~Astrid Alauda
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art. ~Kenneth Tynan
No one is listening until you fart. ~Author Unknown
A rustle in the wind reminds us a fairy is near. ~Author Unknown
If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XV "Hester and Pearl"
In cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. ~John Perry Barlow
A part of this strangeness of dress is that it links the biological body to the social being, and public to private. ~Elizabeth Wilson
An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played Carnegie Hall. ~Oscar Levant
Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet. ~Judith Martin
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them. ~William F. Halsey
How can one help shivering with delight when one's hot fingers close around the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade and stiff with newborn vigor! ~Colette
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb
Be kind to your shadow. ~Rebecca Lawless
Only the dead have seen the end of war. ~Plato
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. ~Jim Rohn
When Hell freezes over, I'll play hockey there too. ~Author Unknown
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