The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the end of a long and fatiguing trip for which vigorous good health is necessary. Practically speaking, this means that no one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. ~Garrett Hardin, The Ecologist, February 1974
Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it. ~Jean Kerr
At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable. ~Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, Big Love, "Easter"
Names are an important key to what a society values. Anthropologists recognize naming as 'one of the chief methods for imposing order on perception.' ~David S. Slawson
"Thou shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai. ~Leo Tolstoy
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ~Fran Lebowitz
An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. ~Robert Ingersoll, quoted in Ingersoll the Magnificent
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. ~Ivern Ball
Capital punishment: The income tax. ~Jeff Hayes
There are rich counsels in the trees. ~Herbert P. Horne
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that. ~Bob Edwards
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. ~Jean Paul Richter
Life's like a novel with the end ripped out. ~Danny Orton and Blair Daly, "Stand"
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn. ~Alan J. Perlis
I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. ~Henry James
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad"
I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it. ~Author Unknown
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? ~Pablo Casals
I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life. ~Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse, 1883
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. ~William Hazlitt
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. ~Charles Horton Cooley
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