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When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness. ~Bob Hope



Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires... ~Elizabeth Hardwick



This house is protected by killer dust bunnies. ~Author Unknown



We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. ~W.E.B. DuBois



I believe in God; I just don't trust anyone who works for him. ~Author Unknown



Dogs have owners, cats have staff. ~Author Unknown



To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. ~Confucius



Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. ~Frank Moore Colby



A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain. ~Llewelyn Powers



A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ~Samuel McChord Crothers, "Every Man's Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else" The Dame School of Experience, 1920



Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. ~William Shakespeare



I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. ~Noel Coward, 1956



The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. ~Bertrand Russell



Oxygen is overrated. ~Author Unknown



"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done." ~Author Unknown



Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. ~Samuel Johnson



To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less. ~Chu Hui Weng



Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo? ~Adlai Stevenson



How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves. ~Thomas a Kempis