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Three passions, simple but overwhelming, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ~Bertrand Russell, Autobiography, 1967
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ~Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. ~William Hazlitt
Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since. ~Dave Beard
Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God; and so there's no room left for worry thoughts. ~Howard Chandler Christy
There's no taking trout with dry breeches. ~Miguel de Cervantes
It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the men whose people have been here many generations. ~Henry Cabot Lodge
Simply having children does not make mothers. ~John A. Shedd
The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down. ~Jawaharlal Nehru
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ~Don Marquis
Life is too short to sleep on low thread-count sheets. ~Leah Stussy
Many people quit looking for work when they find a job. ~Author Unknown
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. ~Author unknown, attributed to Mark Twain
Treaties are like roses and young girls - they last while they last. ~Charles de Gaulle
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. ~Charles Dudley Warner
Americans are broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there is something wrong with him. ~Art Buchwald, "How Un-American Can You Get?," Have I Ever Lied to You?, 1966
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. ~Henry David Thoreau
It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859
The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word. ~Elizabeth Bibesco
