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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. ~Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat



It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.



Men are better when riding, more just and more understanding, and more alert and more at ease and more under-taking, and better knowing of all countries and all passages; in short and long all good customs and manners cometh thereof, and the health of man and of his soul. ~Attributed to Edward Plantagenet



Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous. ~Lord Rosebery



The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about. ~Don Marquis



To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ~Pearl S. Buck



Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911



God pulled an all-nighter on the sixth day. ~Author Unknown



If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater. ~Pam Brown



In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running. ~Jeff Bezos



The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayadere of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising - only these stand a chance. ~Henry James



A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~Henry Brooks Adams



How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel



I trade sweat for strength. I trade doubt for belief. I trade cheerleading for nothing. ~Author Unknown



The victory of Christianity over paganism was the greatest psychic revolution in the history of our culture. By destroying pagan animism, Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects. ~Lynn I. White, Jr., Science, 10 March 1967



How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all colour-blind? ~Author Unknown



What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window. ~Author Unknown



Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. ~Luis Bu�uel



Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. ~Wayne W. Dyer