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There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough to pay attention to the story. ~Linda Hogan



Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. ~Al-Waleed bin Talal



No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. ~Daphne Fielding, The Duchess of Jermyn Street



You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Laurence J. Peter



It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



Butterflies are self propelled flowers. ~R.H. Heinlein



The graveyards are full of indispensable men. ~Charles de Gaulle



The best things in life aren't things. ~Art Buchwald



There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. ~Frederick Faber



The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out. ~Herbert Spencer



A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Alexander Pope, in Swift, Miscellanies



The greatest dreams are always unrealistic. ~Will Smith



Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. ~Jean Burden



It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment. ~Honore de Balzac



One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640



If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons. ~Daniel Marsh, 1950



In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



If cats could talk, they wouldn't. ~Nan Porter



You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. ~Winston Churchill