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Knowledge is haunted by the ghost of past opinion. ~Author Unknown



I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs



Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science. ~Edmund Arthur Helps



It is the four pillars of the male heterosexual psyche. We like: naked women, stockings, lesbians, and Sean Connery best as James Bond, because that is what being a boy is. ~Coupling, "Inferno," original airdate 2 June 2000, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Steve



The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends. ~Allan Frome



The body never lies. ~Martha Graham



To the lamp of love: may it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial. ~Author Unknown To the loved ones with snowy crowns, I bequeath the happiness of old age, the love and gratitude of their children until they fall asleep. ~Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Williston Fish



A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather. ~Judith Merkle Riley



We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. ~Voltaire



A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ~Dean Acheson



The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. ~Alexander of Tralles



Money doesn't talk, it swears. ~Bob Dylan, "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"



Love is metaphysical gravity. ~R. Buckminster Fuller



The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. ~G.K. Chesterton



Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~Victor Hugo



The ornaments of your house will be the guests who frequent it. ~Author Unknown



It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~Baha'u'llah It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~Baha'u'llah



Heat, ma'am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. ~Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir