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Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897



I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. ~Andre Breton, "Manifesto of Surrealism," 1924



Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful. ~Author Unknown



John Adams: "It's like having your cake and eating it too."



Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ~Daniel J. Boorstin, Democracy and Its Discontents



The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good. ~John Barrymore



With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. ~Eric Hoffer



Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of destruction, top scientists may call on us to, well, you know, do it like crazy for the sake of humankind. ~Author Unknown



The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. ~Charles Caleb Colton



Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ~Wallace Stevens



Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. ~Lou Erickson



True friends stab you in the front. ~Oscar Wilde



The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg. ~Author Unknown



We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss. ~Charles de Lint



There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist. ~Robert Benchley



I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met. ~Bill Fitch



The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard



Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them how to say: "God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth has upped Daddy's paycheck by fifteen to forty percent." ~Waite Hoyt



A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb