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The obscurest epoch is today. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains



To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids. ~Author Unknown



How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese? ~Charles de Gaulle, about France



Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions. ~Didier D�haese



Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. ~Georges-Louis Leclerc



An appeal... is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court. ~Finley Peter Dunne



Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don't mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. ~e.e. cummings, Introduction, Poems, 1954



The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job. ~Slappy White



Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. ~Steve Bluestone



Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. ~Brendan Francis



The future is no place to place your better days. ~Dave Matthews



I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. ~Ecclesiastes 9:11



It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Author Unknown



It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab Notes



Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. ~Lin Yutang



I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ~Pablo Picasso



The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time. ~D.H. Lawrence



When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. ~William James



The story of Harold Ross, the New Yorker and me is a mere footnote to the story of our time, and we might as well face the truth that to researchers of the future, poking about among the ruins of time, we shall all be tiny glitters. But then, so are diamonds. ~James Thurber



The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. ~Buddha