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Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world. ~Walter Savage Landor



We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse. ~Author Unknown



How can I control my life when I can't control my hair? ~Author Unknown



There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. ~Martin Luther



Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid. ~Albert Einstein



As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. ~Samuel Johnson



I always fear that creation will expire before teatime. ~Sydney Smith



Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ~Aldous Huxley



Question: " I understand that Congress is considering a so-called 'flat' tax system. How would this work?" Answer: "If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to fill out any complicated forms, and there would be no loopholes for politically connected groups, and normal people would actually understand the tax laws, and giant talking broccoli stalks would come around and mow your lawn for free, because Congress is NOT going to pass a flat tax, you pathetic fool." ~Dave Barry



Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ~G.K. Chesterton



Be not the slave of Words. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, chapter 8



I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968



Eggs cannot be unscrambled. ~American Proverb



Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. ~Bernard Berenson, Notebook, 1892



The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by a negro named Ed Perry. He handled the bike with kid gloves, you might say. He would always see to it that neither front nor back wheel wobbled. Often he would do a job for me without pay, because, as he put it, he never saw a man so in love with his bike as I was. ~Henry Miller, My Bike and Other Friends



The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. ~Derek Walcott



The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. ~Aldous Huxley



As the centerpiece of a cherished ritual, it's a talisman against the chill of winter, a respite from the ho-hum routine of the day. ~Sarah Engler, "Tea Up," Real Simple magazine, February 2006