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What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson



I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts.... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out. ~George Foster, 1978



You know you live in Phoenix when you've experienced condensation on your butt cheeks from the hot water evaporating in the toilet bowl. ~Author Unknown



Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. ~Werner von Braun



I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not. ~Charles Barkley



And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here. ~St Augustine



Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake. ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne



Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. ~Greg, age 8



I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands. ~E.B. White



The only man who sticks closer to you in adversity than a friend is a creditor. ~Author Unknown



God made the country, and man made the town. ~William Cowper, The Task, 1785



Dick Cheney had a mild heart attack, but they say he'll soon be able to resume his regular activities. I thought having heart attacks was his regular activity. Anyway, since he's a Republican, the heart isn't a major organ. ~Jay Leno



History is petrified imagination. ~Arthur Baer



If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job. ~Malcolm S. Forbes



It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ~Jacob Bronowski



There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place. ~Euripides



Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic. ~Robert S. Wieder



The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer. ~Paula Poundstone