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I would prefer not to. ~Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener"



The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Gone golfin'... be back dark thirty. ~Author Unknown



Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras.... As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty. ~William A. Niskanen, "For a Less Responsive Government," Cato Policy Report, 1996



He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. ~Abraham Lincoln



There never was a merry world since the fairies left off dancing, and the Parson left conjuring. ~John Selden, "Parson," Table Talk, 1689



Faith is a passionate intuition. ~William Wordsworth



Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day. ~Author Unknown



The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. ~Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok



Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same. ~Oscar Wilde



It's not plagiarism - I'm recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do. ~Uniek Swain



If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. ~Sam Snead



In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time. ~Will Rogers



There are no facts, only interpretations. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. ~Tehyi Hsieh



America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. ~Sigmund Freud



There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday. ~Robert Nathan, So Love Returns



It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. ~W.C. Fields



Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. ~Ian McHarg



It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. ~Ashleigh Brilliant