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There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion. ~Mark van Doren



Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. ~Thomas Fuller



Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicates nothing but the changeableness of the weather. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Love is a matter of chemistry, but sex is a matter of physics. ~Author Unknown



I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth." ~Quincy Jones



Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~M. Kathleen Casey



Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. ~Johnny Carson



Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke? ~Rita Rudner



Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. ~Carl G. Jung



He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb



War! that mad game the world so loves to play. ~Jonathan Swift



Baseball isn't a business, it's more like a disease. ~Walter F. O'Malley



Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. ~Carl Sandburg, New York Times, 13 February 1959



All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell. ~Sean Ningen



Nurses - one of the few blessings of being ill. ~Sara Moss-Wolfe



No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. ~Henry S. Haskins



He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. ~Benjamin Franklin



Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. ~Roderick Haig-Brown, about modern fishing, A River Never Sleeps, 1946



Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her. ~Val Doonican