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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. ~John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916



Everyone smiles in the same language. ~Author Unknown



What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself. ~Russell Hoban, Turtle Diary, 1975



There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims



If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky



The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition. ~Martin H. Fischer



Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. ~Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom, 1941



The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. ~Charles Evans Hughes



We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. ~Syrus



Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was never weaker. ~From the movie Naked



Time is the wisest counsellor of all. ~Pericles



The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." ~Dan Rather



Who hath a better friend than a cat? ~William Hardwin



The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. ~Voltaire



Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez



Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making. ~Leigh Hunt



Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. ~Mark Twain



There are many experts on how things have been done up to now. If you think something could use a little improvement, you are the expert. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. ~Anne Taylor Fleming



Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. ~James Thurber