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Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. ~Beverley Nichols



I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit. ~Ida B. Wells



Retirement: World's longest coffee break. ~Author Unknown



Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it. ~Not Your Average Dictionary



My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. ~Abraham Lincoln



When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1857



The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings. ~Garrett Hardin



Man was predestined to have free will. ~Hal Lee Luyah



What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now. ~Author Unknown What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, chapter 1



Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing. ~Ralph Richardson



Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness. ~John Fisher, The Plot to Make You Buy, 1968



A man's library is a sort of harem. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860



When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray



There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection is the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted. ~Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behaviour



It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature. ~John Brown



The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness. ~Uniek Swain



I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. ~Henry David Thoreau



Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. ~Colette



Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. ~Jean de Boufflers