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Easy is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man. ~Nancy Linn-Desmond



Grandfathers are just antique little boys. ~Author Unknown



There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used.... Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. ~Gil Bailie



Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly. ~Sam Slick (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)



The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game. ~Chuck Tanner, quoted in The Sporting News, 15 July 1985



The populist authoritarianism that is the downside of political correctness means that anyone, sometimes it seems like everyone, can proclaim their grief and have it acknowledged. The victim culture, every sufferer grasping for their own Holocaust, ensures that anyone who feels offended can call for moderation, for dilution, and in the end, as is all too often the case, for censorship. And censorship, that by-product of fear - stemming as it does not from some positive agenda, but from the desire to escape our own terrors and superstitions by imposing them on others - must surely be resisted. ~Jonathon Green, "Did You Say 'Offensive?'," as posted on wordwizard.com The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for. ~Jane Austen



My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. ~Henny Youngman



The Internet is the trailer park for the soul. ~Marilyn Manson



No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch. ~Leo Dworken



You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan



Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. ~Charles Dickens



Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article. ~Bob Frankston



Money may talk, but chocolate sings. ~Author Unknown



I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward. ~G.K. Chesterton



There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton



Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. ~Katherine Mansfield



Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. ~George Bernard Shaw



The public blabbers about preventative medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You get paid for what you cure. ~Martin H. Fischer



Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. ~Francis Bacon



The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium. ~Norbet Platt