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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. ~Fyodor Dostoevski


A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning. ~Griff Niblack


Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ~John Keats


There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used.... Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. ~Gil Bailie


It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock. ~Woody Allen, "My Speech to the Graduates," Side Effects, 1980


The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say. ~Mark Twain


The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. ~Confucius


A person is neither whole nor healthy without the memories of photo albums. They are the storybook of our lives. They provide a nostalgic escape from the tormented days of the present. ~Patrick Garry


Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. ~Rainer Maria Rilke


If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. ~Eric Hoffer


Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase. ~Erma Bombeck


I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache. ~Bernard M. Baruch


We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. ~Andre Berthiaume, Contretemps


Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. ~Galen


A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966