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Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!



The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way. ~Judith Martin



Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~Anthony Brandt



Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it. ~Author Unknown



Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. ~Lord Chesterfield



Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ~Twyla Tharp



Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911



Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~Sydney J. Harris



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



Time is the fire in which we burn. ~Delmore Schwartz, "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day," 1937 (Thanks, George)



Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. ~Roger Babson



Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. ~Irene Peter



Education should be exercise; it has become massage. ~Martin H. Fischer



Before I travelled my road I was my road. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income. ~Gene Perret



Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space. ~Dave Barry



The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils. ~Martin H. Fischer