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You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Saying



Useful and ornamental needlework, knitting, and netting are capable of being made, not only sources of personal gratification, but of high moral benefit, and the means of developing in surpassing loveliness and grace, some of the highest and noblest feelings of the soul. ~Author unknown, from The Ladies' Work Table Book, 1845



Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. ~Oscar Wilde



Marriage ...the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue. ~Mrs Patrick Campbell



How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. ~Alfred de Musset



Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of a dead cow. ~Bob Ekstrom



Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows. ~Jennifer Yane



It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else. ~Havelock Ellis



Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. ~Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons, 1953



God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. ~Henry Ward Beecher



Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. ~Carl Sandburg



Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything. ~Toby Harrah, 1983



If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. ~Stanley Garn



Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ~G.K. Chesterton



It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness. ~Fred Hoyle, Of Man and Galaxies



Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949



As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty. ~William A. Niskanen, "For a Less Responsive Government," Cato Policy Report, 1996



A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ~G.K. Chesterton



Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. ~Vincent Van Gogh, 1889