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If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. ~Jack Handey



Symptoms, then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs. ~Jean Martin Charcot, translated from French



The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ~Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes, 1911



When I die, bury me on the golf course so my husband will visit. ~Author Unknown



Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. ~Maria Edgeworth



If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride. ~Author Unknown



Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me. ~Sam Abbel



Concerning football playing, I protest to you it may rather be called a friendly kind of fighting, rather than recreation. ~Author Unknown



My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow. ~Bill Cosby



Praise the sea; on shore remain. ~John Florio



The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. ~Jessamyn West



I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss



Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet. ~Author Unknown



The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things. ~Author Unknown



It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. ~P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs



My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather. ~Terri Guillemets



Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ~Bertrand Russell, Look, 1954



The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. ~Jane Addams