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Three passions, simple but overwhelming, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ~Bertrand Russell, Autobiography, 1967



The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. ~Jean Paul Richter



Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. ~John Ruskin



The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble. ~Clara Ortega



Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. ~Honore de Balzac



The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain



When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. ~Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, 1842



There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. ~James Russell Lowell



Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. ~Virginie des Rieux, Epigrams



If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer. ~Clement Freud, The Observer, 27 December 1964



Hell! There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish somep'n. ~Thomas Alva Edison



No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst, so long as you don't do it the same way twice, you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one. ~George F. Nordenhold



Being an American is a spectator sport. ~Brock Fiant



Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. ~Author Unknown Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. ~Author Unknown



The rule was "No autopsy, no foul." ~Stewart Granger, on the pickup games of his childhood



Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother. ~Voltaire



All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say, "Yo Goober! Where's the meat?" I'm trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don't win friends with salad. ~Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Homer Simpson



When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. ~Vance Law



Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ~Elbert Hubbard



People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. ~George Bernard Shaw, "Family Affection," Parents and Children, 1914