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For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species. ~Washington Irving, History of New York



Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it. ~S.J. Perelman, Acres and Pains, 1951



I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. ~Mae West



It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown. ~Author Unknown



Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. ~George Bernard Shaw, "The Rejected Statement, Part I," The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, 1911



I wouldn't mind dying - it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me. ~R. Geis



Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. ~Bertrand Russell, attributed



Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ~Eugene O'Neill



Twice as much to love, two blessings from above. ~Author Unknown



We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide. ~Havelock Ellis



And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. ~Luke 2:13-14



Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. ~Mark Twain



They say a reasonable amount 'o fleas is good fer a dog - keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe. ~Edward Westcott



Your safety gears are between your ears. ~Author Unknown



When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me! ~Henri Rousseau



Personal protective equipment is self-defense. ~Author Unknown



Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it. ~Winifred Kirkland



He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ~Harold Wilson