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Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. ~Mignon McLaughlin



Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. ~Norman Cousins



One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. ~Oscar Wilde



Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear! ~Herman Melville



I did not fully understand the dread term "terminal illness" until I saw Heathrow for myself. ~Dennis Potter, 1978



Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. ~Author Unknown



No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. ~Paul Gallico



It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero



Flowers really do intoxicate me. ~Vita Sackville-West



This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ~Neil Gaiman



Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. ~Francis Bacon, Essays



All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ~Maurice Maeterlinck



If marriage were outlawed, only outlaws would have in-laws. ~Author Unknown



Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will turn to ashes on the lips of men. ~Robert G. Ingersoll, Ingersoll's Works, Vol. 1



Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ~Lord Chesterfield



Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water. ~Dave Barry, Why Humor Is Funny



If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. ~Albert Einstein



Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work. ~Llewelyn Powys



Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland