The number one sign you have nothing to do at work: The 4th Division of Paperclips has overrun the Pushpin Infantry and General White-Out has called for a new skirmish. ~Fred Barling, "Humorscope"
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. ~Philip James Bailey
Medicine is the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. ~James Bryce, 1914
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you. ~Frank Crane
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. ~Charles Caleb Colton
America is the only country ever founded on the printed word. ~Marshall McLuhan
One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late. ~Jack Handey One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ~George Bernard Shaw We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ~George Bernard Shaw We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. ~John Lancaster Spalding
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ~Pablo Picasso
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ~Malachy McCourt
An unattempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. ~Michel de Montaigne
I think war might be God's way of teaching us geography. ~Paul Rodriguez
Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. ~Mac McCleary
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do. ~Lois Wyse
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap. ~Author Unknown
Passage: a usually brief portion of a written work or speech that is relevant to a point under discussion or noteworthy for content or style.
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. ~Jean de Boufflers
I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. ~Henry David Thoreau
The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory. ~Rene Dubos, The Wooing of Earth, 1980
Many continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game. ~George Mikes, How to Be an Alien, 1946
Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye. ~Grey Livingston
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike (Thanks, Carl)
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