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Silence was never written down. ~Italian Proverb



Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns. ~William S. Gilbert



Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. ~Lord Chesterfield



Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ~Michael Novak



There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. ~Thomas Sowell



Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. ~Gail Godwin



I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. ~Mary Roberts Rinehart



Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear. ~Author Unknown



I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. ~Joe Walsh



If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts, we'd all have a bowl of granola. ~From Strangers with Candy



Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. ~Charles Caleb Colton



No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today. ~Brendan Francis



Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



If the King loves music, it is well with the land. ~Mencius



What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, "All Trivia," Afterthoughts, 1931



Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. ~William Shakespeare



A man ought not never to get drunk above the neck. ~Author Unknown



We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations. ~Francis John McConnell