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Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. ~Adam Smith



In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all. ~Anne Sophie Swetchine



Education is the best provision for old age. ~Aristotle



One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. ~Thomas Fuller



The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct. ~Samuel J. Meltzer



We have met the enemy and they are us! ~Walt Kelly, Pogo, 1971



The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer. ~Paula Poundstone



To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin. ~Branch Rickey, May 1960



You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens. ~Stephen King, The Stand



Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. ~Mark Twain



No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. ~Christopher Morley



Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the Winter Olympics. ~Marvin Olasky



The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won't be able to tell the carrots from the onions. ~Arthur Bloch



Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot. ~Minnie Pearl



the civil service examination. ~Ronald Reagan



There is no better friend than a sister. And there is no better sister than you. ~Author Unknown



We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. ~Harold Nicolson



The story of Harold Ross, the New Yorker and me is a mere footnote to the story of our time, and we might as well face the truth that to researchers of the future, poking about among the ruins of time, we shall all be tiny glitters. But then, so are diamonds. ~James Thurber



We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go. ~Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters, 1913