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The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. ~Will and Ariel Durant, The Reformation



Doors don't slam open. ~John M. Shanahan, The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)



Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Baseball is too much of a sport to be a business and too much of a business to be a sport. ~Phillip Wrigley



As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language. ~Pablo Picasso



He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skill of the physician. ~Chinese Proverb



Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact. ~Martin H. Fischer



I think the world is run by C students. ~Al McGuire



Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland



If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ~Edith Wharton



We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it. ~From the television show The Golden Girls



To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. ~Euripides



A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern. ~Edgar A. Shoaff



When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government. ~Alexander Chase, Perspectives, 1966



Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. ~Marshall McLuhan, introduction to Wilson Bryan Key, Subliminal Seduction: Ad Media's Manipulation of a Not So Innocent America, 1974



What I take from my nights, I add to my days. ~Leon de Rotrou, "Vencelas," translated



Sally: "Susan, age brings you more to shave."



My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God, and I didn't. ~Author Unknown



Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions. ~A.A. Latimer