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If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Tell him I've been too fucking busy - or vice versa. ~Dorothy Parker



The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know. ~William R. Inge



Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health - it rusts your spirit and your hips. ~Terri Guillemets



All promise outruns performance. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ~Benjamin Franklin



I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. ~Andre Gide



When freedom from want and freedom from fear are achieved, man's remains will be in rigor mortis. ~Martin H. Fischer



That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Experience," Essays, 1844



I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881



Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~Julins Gordon



Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



You really shouldn't say "I love you" unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. ~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Jessica



It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~Charles Dickens



In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ~Sam Llewelyn



So what good are all these fruitless discussions; for in the eternal battle of the sexes, we are always conquered - and we can do nothing about it - and none of us as yet, be he misogynist or feminist, has found a more perfect instrument of pleasure, or any other means of reproduction, than woman. ~"The Manuscript"



Science is the topography of ignorance. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Medical Essays, 1883



It is curious that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Perhaps people like the world they can see from a bike, or the air they breathe when they're out on a bike. Or they like the bicycle's simplicity and the precision with which it is made. Or because they like the feeling of being able to hurtle through air one minute, and saunter through a park the next, without leaving behind clouds of choking exhaust, without leaving behind so much as a footstep. ~Gurdon S. Leete