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Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ~Eustache Deschamps



What compels you to stare, night after night, at all the glittering hokum that has been deliberately put together for you? ~J.B. Priestley



Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb



Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. ~Thomas Fuller



A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. ~Pam Brown



There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest. ~Rudolph Ladenburg



Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you. ~Reggie Jackson



My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs. ~Bill Vaughan My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ~Aldous Huxley



I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond. ~Mae West



It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. ~Meryl Streep



All the windows of my heart I open to the day. ~John Greenleaf Whittier



Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. ~Ernest Hemingway



The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



God's will is not an itinerary, but an attitude. ~Andrew Dhuse



Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. ~Bernard Berenson, Notebook, 1892



Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. ~Joseph Wood Krutch



How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward. ~Spanish Proverb



How do people make it through life without a sister? ~Sara Corpening



It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. ~Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1770



Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown