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They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works. ~Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621



It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station. ~Michael Herr



Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. ~Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. ~Peter Marshall



If a man would move the world, he must first move himself. ~Socrates



The road to success is wherever people need another road. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. ~Oscar Wilde



Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. ~Douglas Malloch



The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg. ~Author Unknown



Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment. ~Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste



He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. ~George Orwell



I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. ~John Burroughs



Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. ~Lord Byron



If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action. ~Douglas Adams



My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. ~Oscar Wilde



Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. ~Abbott Lawrence Lowell



It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. ~Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903



I bear a little more than I can bear. ~Elinor Hoyt Wylie, Angels and Earthly Creatures. One Person. Sonnet XVI



The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current. ~Willa Sibert Cather