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War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage. ~Dick Motta



Dreams are only thoughts you didn't have time to think about during the day. ~Author Unknown



Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. ~Mother Teresa



I will not carry a gun.... I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even hari-kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun! ~Hawkeye, M*A*S*H, "Officer of the Day"



Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ~Ludwig Borne



Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ~Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism



Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. ~Gottfried Leibniz



I figure that the degree of difficulty in combining two lives ranks somewhere between rerouting a hurricane and finding a parking place in downtown Manhattan. ~Claire Cloninger, "When the Glass Slipper Doesn't Fit and the Silver Spoon is in Someone Else's Mouth"



Even the gods love jokes. ~Plato



We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect. ~Sam Ewing



A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb



We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves. ~George M. Adams



Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff. ~Robert Eliot



Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house. It's as though I could fly, almost, and I get very tense before I've told the truth - hard. Then I sit down at the desk and get going with it. ~Anne Sexton



If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first. ~Arthur Weigall



Friendship is a sheltering tree. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge



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



I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. ~Gilda Radner