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As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. ~Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism



Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ~George Will



H2O: two parts Heart and one part Obsession. ~Author Unknown



Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. ~Vladimir Nabokov, 1951



It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. ~Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason



We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. ~Dora Winifred Black Russell



And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk. ~Bill Knott, "(End) of Summer (1966)" (Thanks, Laurie)



I will not die an unlived life.... I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. ~Dawna Markova



Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the crimes, follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women. ~Lemony Snicket



If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral. ~Samuel P. Ginder



What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part. ~Marcel Proust, The Fugitive, Remembrance of Things Past, 1925



I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. ~Maya Angelou



Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon



The mind is the most capricious of insects - flitting, fluttering. ~Virginia Woolf



The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong. ~Wilson Mizner



So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ~Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948



Born to golf. Forced to work. ~Author Unknown



The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. ~Author Unknown



Hunger: One of the few cravings that cannot be appeased with another solution. ~Irwin Van Grove