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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it. ~Bernard Berenson



The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. ~Guy de Maupassant



If I love you, what business is it of yours? ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. ~Sydney J. Harris



Most people's religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe. ~Luther Burbank, Why I Am an Infidel



The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. ~Celia Green, The Decline and Fall of Science, 1972



Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. ~Francis Bacon, Essays



One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. ~D.H. Lawrence



Humankind cannot bear very much reality. ~T.S. Eliot



Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have encountered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness. ~Christopher Lloyd, The Well-Tempered Garden, 1973



Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul - and you answer. ~Terri Guillemets



Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. ~Dinah Shore



Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either. ~P.J. O'Rourke



The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult. ~Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand, letter to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, 7 July 1763



I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. ~Stephen Roberts



I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. ~Matthew Henry



Doubt is healthy. It tests one's convictions. ~From the movie Haunted



In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ~Alice Walker



Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you. ~Nicholai Velimirovic



The wise man reads both books and life itself. ~Lin Yutang