When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. ~Sophocles
A life without cause is a life without effect. ~Barbarella
Old age is fifteen years older than I am. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there? ~Larry Anderson
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ~H.G. Wells
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ~Abraham Lincoln
In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers. ~Richard Power
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. ~Andrew Carnegie
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ~E.M. Forster
Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made. ~Author Unknown
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. ~P. J. O'Rourke
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve. ~Charles de Gaulle
If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Breastfeeding is a gift that lasts a lifetime. ~Author Unknown
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. ~Charles Simic
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween. ~Erma Bombeck
To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime. ~Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize 1915
Unraveling proverbs is a suitable puzzle for an old man. I put pieces in order and build up a kind of Utopian castle. ~Matti Kuusi
As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation. ~John Smith
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets. ~Robert Ingersoll, A Lay Sermon There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. ~Heinrich Heine
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? ~Robert Browning, A Toccata of Galuppi's
If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country. ~Author Unknown
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