It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. ~Hank Aaron, 1971
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! ~Logan Pearsall Smith
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown
You may lose your most valuable property through misfortune in various ways. You may lose your house, your wife and other treasures. But of your moko, you cannot be deprived except by death. It will be your ornament and companion until your last day. ~Netana Whakaari of Waimana
We are betrayed by what is false within. ~George Meredith
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. ~Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon, 1929
Present your family and friends with their eulogies now - they won't be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin. ~Anonymous
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ~George William Curtis
Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it. ~Luke Salisbury
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. ~Agnes Repplier, Points of View
Life is half spent before we know what it is. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651
Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know. ~From The Andy Griffith Show
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. ~John Gardner
Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. ~Author Unknown
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
Money doesn't talk, it swears. ~Bob Dylan, "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
Cats do care. For example they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off. ~Michael Nelson
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. ~Lucy Larcom
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever. ~Ashley Montague
Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries. ~Benjamin Franklin
History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow. ~Francis Ponge
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own. ~Jessamyn West It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. ~Denis Diderot
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. ~Mark Twain
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. ~C.C. Colton
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