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Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Give blood. Play hockey. ~Author Unknown



Every true genius is bound to be naive. ~J.C.F. von Schiller



A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. ~Carl Sandburg



Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it - with their life. ~John Wooden Legs, "Back on the War Ponies," 1960, quoted in We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History, edited by Nathaniel May and Clint Willis (Thanks, Jamie)



The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891



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



And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats. ~George Carlin



I have laboriously collected this cento out of diverse writers. I have wronged no authors but given every man his own.... Bees do little harm and damage no one in extracting honey; I can say of myself, whom have I injured? The matter is theirs most part, and yet mine.... it becomes something different in its new setting. ~Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy



One under a tree, one under a bush, one under the water. ~Lee Trevino, describing how he was one under during a tournament



Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you! ~Tommy Smothers



If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? ~Steven Wright



Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife. ~Arianna Stassinopoulos



Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. ~Niccolo Machiavelli



There must be more to life than having everything! ~Maurice Sendak



Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. ~Author Unknown



If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. ~John Louis von Neumann



A tough day at the office is even tougher when your office contains spectator seating. ~Nik Posa



The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. ~Pearl S. Buck



Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially. ~A. Bronson Alcott