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Gluttony is not a secret vice. ~Orson Welles



If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. ~Emma Goldman



We turn not older with years, but newer every day. ~Emily Dickinson



I like my coffee strong, not lethal! ~M*A*S*H



One ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark, its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself. Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time, one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase - some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno or other lump of verbal refuse - into the dustbin where it belongs. ~George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," Shooting an Elephant, 1950



We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanese Proverb



The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ~George William Curtis



Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer



No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. ~George Bernard Shaw



A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may. ~Mark Twain



Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. ~Oscar Wilde



No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him. ~Martin Luther



Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ~Edwin Hubbel Chapin



I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble - and you go to strip clubs. ~Scott Caan



One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. ~John Burroughs



There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass. ~Dan Devine, former Notre Dame football coach



The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins. ~Bob Moawad



Many a man owes his success to his first wife, and his second wife to his success. ~Jim Backus



If something smells fishy, the neurotic knows everything is going just right. ~Terri Guillemets