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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~Kurt Vonnegut



I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging. ~Peter O'Toole, on psychoanalysis



A horse doesn't care how much you know, until he knows how much you care. ~Pat Parelli



For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. ~Mark Twain I am enamored with desert dew because it's usually the closest thing we get to rain. ~Linda Solegato



Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. ~Robert S. Lynd



The idea is to die young as late as possible. ~Ashley Montagu The idea is to die young as late as possible. ~Ashley Montagu



It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus



Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Ah, the joy of suckling! She lovingly watched the fishlike motions of the toothless mouth and she imagined that with her milk there flowed into her little son her deepest thoughts, concepts, and dreams. ~Milan Kundera



One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. ~Romans 14:5



The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer. ~Joan Collins



Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. ~Ingrid Newkirk



Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith



It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. ~Norman Douglas



There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible. ~P.J. O'Rourke



Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust



Teach us to say: "I will arise." ~Richard Le Gallienne