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What lies lurk in kisses. ~Heinrich Heine



Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs. ~Abraham Meyerson



Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911



There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will. ~Robert Frost



Microsoft, where quality is job 1.1. ~Author Unknown



No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere



Hefeweizen. Never drink something you can't spill. ~Steve Miller, www.born-today.com/Choose_bDay.htm



Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. ~George Balanchine



Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. ~River Phoenix



There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. ~Doug Larson



The darkness of the whole world cannot swallow the glowing of a candle. ~Robert Altinger The daughter who won't lift a finger in the house is the same child who cycles madly off in the pouring rain to spend all morning mucking out a stable. ~Samantha Armstrong



Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! ~Thomas Carlyle



Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner. ~Author Unknown



Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh. ~Judah Ibn Tibbon



The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys. ~Dave Beard



Punning and groaning are brothers. ~B.F. Tucson



Women really do rule the world. They just haven't figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we're all in big big trouble. ~"Doctor Leon," drleons.com



The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. ~W. Eugene Smith



In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935 In the beginning there was nothing. God said, "Let there be light!" And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. ~Ellen DeGeneres