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Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled over how much weight you have gained. ~Author Unknown



Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. ~Mark Twain, Notebooks, 1935



I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. ~Pablo Neruda, quoted in Wall Street Journal,, 14 November 1985



A sister smiles when one tells one's stories - for she knows where the decoration has been added. ~Chris Montaigne



The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~Thomas Merton



Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle a thing that flies. ~John Lester



The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place. ~David and Leigh Eddings



All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists. ~Frederick Brooks, Jr.



The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel, 1981



You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness. ~Jaesse Tyler



A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. ~Rabindranath Tagore



Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. ~Author Unknown



God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. ~John Aughey



If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower



For me there is no greater subject than history. How a man can study it and not be forced to become a philosopher, I cannot tell. ~George E. Wilson



Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb



What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. ~Bertolt Brecht



Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. ~William Shakespeare



Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Every moment of pleasure in life has to be purchased by an equal moment of pain. ~Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Up the Long Ladder," Danilo O'Dell