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You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. ~Billie Holiday



We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. ~Helen Rowland



The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. ~Russell Green



There are times when silence has the loudest voice. ~Leroy Brownlow



It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going. ~Groucho Marx



Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. ~Emily Saliers, "Center Stage," Indigo Girls, 1989



Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. ~George Bernard Shaw



Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear - and devils, too. ~Terri Guillemets



Las Vegas is sort of like how God would do it if he had money. ~Steve Wynn



A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. ~Chauncey Mitchell Depew



Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb



Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another. ~Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces, 1977



In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. ~Terry Pratchett



Fort Yuma is probably the hottest place on earth. The thermometer stays at one hundred and twenty in the shade there all the time - except when it varies and goes higher. It is a U.S. military post, and its occupants get so used to the terrific heat that they suffer without it. There is a tradition... that a very, very wicked soldier died there, once, and of course, went straight to the hottest corner of perdition, - and the next day he telegraphed back for his blankets. ~Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1872, chapter LVI



If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy



Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is. ~Walter Kaufmann



We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us. ~Author Unknown



Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it. ~Author Unknown