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The signs of the zodiac are karmic patterns; the planets are the looms; the will is the weaver. ~Author Unknown



The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic, 1799



If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!" ~Lemony Snicket



Adultery is the application of democracy to love. ~Henry Louis Mencken, "Sententiae," A Book of Burlesques, 1920



Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ~Gerald Brenan



Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



Laying in bed this morning contemplating how amazing it would be if somehow Oscar Wilde and Mae West could twitter from the grave. ~Dita Von Teese (@DitaVonTeese), May 7, 2009 on Twitter



There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt. ~Author Unknown



Oh the powers of nature. She knows what we need, and the doctors know nothing. ~Benvenuto Cellini



The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little. ~Eric Porterfield



The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb



Perhaps beneath the scoundrel that I am, there lies a misled poet? Perhaps a mystifier who enjoys mystifying himself? ~"The Mission," Chapter 2



When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished his narrative, and comes searching for the subtitle which shall best express the spirit of the period, we think it not at all unlikely that he may select "The Age of Advertising" for the purpose. ~Printers' Ink, 27 May 1915



The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ~Benjamin Franklin



Events in the past may roughly be divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. ~W.R. Inge, Assessments and Anticipations



What is a promiscuous person? It is usually someone who is getting more sex than you are. ~Victor Lownes, Playboy, 1985



A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb



A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late. ~Max Kauffman