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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. ~Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis



The sport of choice for the urban poor is basketball. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is bowling. The sport of choice for front-line workers is football. The sport of choice for supervisors is baseball. The sport of choice for middle management is tennis. The sport of choice for corporate officers is golf. Conclusion: The higher you are in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become. ~Author Unknown



Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities



For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. ~Alice Kahn



Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. ~Gail Godwin



A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak. ~James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics, 1848



To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it. ~C.G. Jung



If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~Stephen Levine



There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. ~James Russell Lowell, Democracy and Other Addresses, 1887



Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring. ~George Herbert



Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. ~John Shirley



Sometimes God calms the storm. At other times, he calms the sailor. And sometimes he makes us swim. ~Author Unknown



Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. ~Richard Bach



Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~Barnett R. Brickner



Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it. ~Pablo Casals



Civilization is what makes you sick. ~Paul Gauguin



Nothing weights lighter than a promise. ~German Proverb



The day will happen whether or not you get up. ~John Ciardi



As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer



Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. ~Tom O'Connor