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I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. ~Oliver Goldsmith I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. ~Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, 1911



Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. ~Rachel Carson



It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. ~H.W. Shaw



Love is the thread that binds us. ~Author Unknown



Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. ~Jean Jacques Rousseau



Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. ~William Burroughs



It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification. ~Bruce McCall



A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. ~Ansel Adams



As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes. ~Bhagavad Gita



Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. ~Marc Brown



Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly



Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure. ~Murphy's Law



The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. ~Napoleon Bonaparte



I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God. ~Carl Jung



If you believe in forever, then life is just a one-night stand. ~Righteous Brothers, "Rock & Roll Heaven"



The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. ~William Shenstone



An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. ~Chateaubriand, Le Genie du Christianisme, 1802



An intellectual is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger. ~John Chesson



In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb