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Character is much easier kept than recovered. ~Thomas Paine



How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert. ~Jason Love



A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween. ~Erma Bombeck



When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." ~Erma Bombeck



The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work. ~Author Unknown



The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. ~Charles de Gaulle



Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. ~Greg Egan, "Distress"



Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others. ~Cynthia Heimel



If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. ~Mark Twain



Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. ~Wallace Stegner, letter to David E. Pesonen of the Wildland Research Center, 3 December 1960 (Thanks, Bekah)



When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. ~Jonathan Swift



Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where - at least in the short run - the important thing is not what happens but what people think happens. ~John Luckacs



An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision. ~St Thomas Aquinas



Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. ~William R. Inge



Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. ~Werner Finck



Vegetarians taste better. ~Author Unknown



Without music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



Music is love in search of a word. ~Sidney Lanier