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Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter. ~Carol Bishop Hipps



One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle. ~Henry David Thoreau



Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? ~Proverbs 6:27



You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond



There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our friends. ~Kin Hubbard



Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again. ~Dorothy Day



Noise, crowding, pollution, and the sheer rush of our complex, modern society are rapidly becoming as oppressive to many individuals as the worst kind of political dictatorship. ~Thomas F. Eagleton



Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously. ~Louis J. Camuti



I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. ~Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason



Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. ~W.B. Yeats



A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. ~Albert Camus



There are no facts, only interpretations. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Life is the game that must be played. ~Edwin Arlington Robinson



Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters. ~Anne Hollander



Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. ~George F. Will



It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. ~Max Eastman



Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau



We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time. ~George Bernard Shaw Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb