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Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. ~Author Unknown



Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. ~Mark Twain



A wee child toddling in a wonder world.... I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan. ~Zitkala-Sa



They that sow in tears shall reap joy. ~Psalms 126:5



It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols



You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. ~Doug Floyd



Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. ~Lydia M. Child



Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life



The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive. ~William Ralph Inge



Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~Jonathan Kozel



Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy. ~"The Garden," Chapter 6



Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose. ~Albert Einstein



Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588



It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity. ~John Addington Symonds



The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. ~John Locke



He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue. ~Jean Baptiste Moliere, Le Misanthrope



We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. ~W. Somerset Maugham



To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. ~Thomas Watson, Sr.



California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America. ~Hinton R. Helper



Weeds are nature's graffiti. ~Janice Maeditere