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In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running. ~Jeff Bezos


After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse. ~W.C. Fields


Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. ~Clara Ortega


In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse. ~Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One, 1948


No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ~Samuel Johnson


We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. ~Dora Winifred Black Russell


Adversity introduces a man to himself. ~Author Unknown


We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665


Firefighting - one of the few professions left that still makes house calls. ~Author Unknown


The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties. ~Carol Matthau


But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature, so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth; but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may, perchance, be further polished, and illustrate and accommodated for use and practice, but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance. ~Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning


Life has no auto-settings. No batteries. You gots to wind it up! ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. ~Josh Billings


Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb


All a gun does is focus an explosion in one direction. You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 19


The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden


Emotion has taught mankind to reason. ~Marquis de Vauvenargues


Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them. ~John B. Gough


If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest. ~Kin Hubbard