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Some people would have us love, or rather obey God, chiefly because he outbids the devil. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Your necklace may break, the fau tree may burst, but my tattooing is indestructible. It is an everlasting gem that you will take into your grave. ~Verse from a traditional tattoo artist's song, as quoted on pbs.org, "Skin Stories: The Art and Culture of Polynesian Tattoo," 2003



Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards? ~Al Boliska



If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. ~Thomas Fuller



We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves. ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton



Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings



The lively Shadow-World of Song. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller



Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. ~James Matthew Barrie



An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it. ~Paul Valery



I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body. ~Elaine Boosler



For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. ~William Penn For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. ~William Penn



Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. ~Steve Almond



He who buys what he does not need steals from himself. ~Author Unknown



Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. ~Clifton Fadiman



A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie



There are no strangers on Christmas Eve. ~Mildred Cram and Adele Comandini



The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill.... Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick. ~Ronald Gold



If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. ~Henry David Thoreau



I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. ~Calvin Trillin



The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. ~Ambrose Bierce