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Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. ~John Donne


A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does. ~Lewis B. Hershey, News summaries, 31 December 1951


I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear. ~Phyllis Diller


Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. ~Ed Howe


Death is a word. He lives and grander grows.


My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ~Aldous Huxley


Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~T.S. Eliot


Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else. ~Nicolas Walter, About Anarchism


Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb


Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. ~Ed Howe


A man of courage never wants weapons. ~Author Unknown


To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear. ~T.A. Sachs


If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation? ~Author Unknown


The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals. ~Harold J. Laski


Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. ~Frank Gillette Burgess


When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. ~Enrique Jardiel Poncela


I see rejection in my skin, worry in my cancers, bitterness and hate in my aching joints. I failed to take care of my mind, and so my body now goes to hospital. ~Astrid Alauda


The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library. ~Lesley Conger


For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized that what I really wanted to be was a lesbian. ~Mabel Maney