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Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. ~Madeleine de Scudery



A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time. ~Author Unknown



New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. ~Jay Leno



I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. ~Michel de Montaigne



Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank. ~Christina Rossetti



My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes. ~Douglas Adams



Health is a relationship between you and your body. ~Terri Guillemets



Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. ~Potter Stewart



Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1750



In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. ~Thomas Jefferson



A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries



The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ~Gloria Steinem, New York Times, 26 August 1971



To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. ~W. Somerset Maugham



The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XVIII "A Flood of Sunshine"



Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ~Buddha



While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? ~George Bernard Shaw



The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current. ~Willa Sibert Cather