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And this tattooing had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but whose mysteries not even himself could read, though his own live heart beat against them; and these mysteries were therefore destined in the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last. ~Herman Melville, Moby-Dick



We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace. ~Albert Schweitzer, The Philosophy of Civilization



Most smiles are started by another smile. ~Author Unknown



O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it. ~Mark Twain, "The War Prayer"



I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. ~Will Rogers



It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ~Benjamin Disraeli



The cold is a good counselor, but it is cold. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



One should eat to live, not live to eat. ~Cicero, Rhetoricorum LV



One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution. ~Joe Cordare



All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side. ~Mark Twain, about the Devil



When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? ~George Canning



Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray



And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. ~Luke 12:19



Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ~Gloria Steinem, New York Times, 26 August 1971



Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new type program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was. ~Art Buchwald, "Adding Insult to Injury," Have I Ever Lied to You?, 1966



No nice men are good at getting taxis. ~Katherine Whitehorn, the Observer, 1977



The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. ~Salvador Dali



Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. ~Henry David Thoreau



Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown