Television is not the Truth. Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom killing business. ~Paddy Chayevsky
Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. ~Thomas Fuller
Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough. ~Author Unknown
People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life. ~Robert Towne
Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing. ~Willis Thornton, Fable, Fact and History
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. ~Emily Dickinson
History is a novel for which the people is the author. ~Alfred de Vigny, Reflexions sur la Verite dans l'Art
I like my money right where I can see it - hanging in my closet. ~From the television show Sex and the City
History is gossip but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ~Oscar Wilde
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk. ~Gene Roddenberry
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words. ~Ernie Harwell, "The Game for All America," 1955
Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat. ~Oxford Union Society, London, Rule 46
I'm allergic to food. Every time I eat it breaks out into fat. ~Jennifer Greene Duncan
I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Internet is the trailer park for the soul. ~Marilyn Manson
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. ~Jim Bishop
Mammalia, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle. ~Ambrose Bierce
If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
Only Americans can hurt America. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
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