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Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. ~Ovid



Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ~Albert Einstein



His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea. ~Author Unknown



If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline. ~Henry Ward Beecher



The girls that are always easy on the eyes are never easy on the heart. ~Author Unknown



Golf is an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements ill-adapted to the purpose. ~Woodrow Wilson



There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William P. Merrill



There is no love sincerer than the love of food. ~George Bernard Shaw, "The Revolutionist's Handbook," Man and Superman



The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals. ~Harold J. Laski



Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. ~Edgar Watson Howe



And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks. ~John Taylor



I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind. ~Virginia Cary Hudson, O Ye Jigs & Juleps, 1962 (Thanks, Charlene)



A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.' ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization. ~W.E.B. DuBois



A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. ~Aesop, Fables



The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ~Bertrand Russell



If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake. ~Eli Siegel



I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. ~Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat



Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. ~Bill Veeck