Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but nothing in this world is certain but death and taxes. ~Benjamin Franklin
Hope is a path through a flowering meadow. One doesn't require that it lead anywhere. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. ~Honore de Balzac
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? ~Dale Carnegie
Curve: The loveliest distance between two points. ~Mae West
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. ~Henri Matisse
I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of. ~Helena Rutherfurd Ely, A Woman's Hardy Garden, 1903
No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history. ~Johan Huizinga, Men and Ideas
You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes. ~Walter M. Schirra, Sr.
A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: Protocol, Geritol, and alcohol. ~Adlai E. Stevenson
Most people do not pray; they only beg. ~George Bernard Shaw
What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. ~Phyllis Diller
You can be sincere and still be stupid. ~Charles F. Kettering
Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved. ~Augusta E. Rundel
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. ~Napoleon
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. ~Author Unknown, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson (*) (Thank you, Frank Lynch.)
To labor is to pray. ~Motto of the Benedictines
Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience. ~Ernest Dimnet
The best way to stop smoking is to just stop - no ifs, ands or butts. ~Edith Zittler
The road was new to me, as roads always are going back. ~Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country Road of Pointed Firs, 1896
Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. ~James Cardinal Gibbons
Nothing that is complete breathes. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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