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Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. ~Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942



Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ~Thornton Wilder



Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old. Malcolm Muggeridge, on pornography, Tread Softly For You Tread On My Jokes, 1966



Golf without mistakes is like watching haircuts. A dinner without wine. ~Jim Murray



I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn. ~A Chieftan from Nigeria



Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself! ~Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia



The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ~G.K. Chesterton



A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist. ~Franklin P. Jones



Half of my heart is deployed. ~Author Unknown



My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. ~William Shakespeare



Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. ~Lyndon B. Johnson



Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. ~James Joyce



That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. ~Horace



A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell L. Willkie



If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. ~George Bernard Shaw



Skipping is just a dancing walk, or if you prefer, a walking dance. ~Jessi Lane Adams



When we worship God, our angels add their prayers and turn our single voices into hundred-part harmony. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up.... When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pinenuts. We don't chop down the trees. ~Wintu Indian, quoted in Julian Burger, The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples, 1990



The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. ~Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923