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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. ~H.L. Mencken



I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. ~Lewis Grizzard



Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~Robert Frost



I prefer to think of them as the Ten Suggestions. ~Author Unknown



His life was a hymn in praise of honor, uprightness, and patriotism. ~Orestes Ferrara



You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. ~G.K. Chesterton



Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966



The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. ~Author Unknown



Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's, and everybody else can fuck off. ~Philip Larkin



Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb



Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. ~William Makepeace



The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. ~Randall Jarrell



The cat has always been associated with the moon. Like the moon it comes to life at night, escaping from humanity and wandering over housetops with its eyes beaming out through the darkness. ~Patricia Dale-Green



Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ~Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered



Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt. ~B. Graham Dienert



Will... the threat of common extermination continue?... Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? ~Pope John Paul II, speech at the UN, 1979



It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844



Hunting sober is like - fishing, sober. ~Uncle Jimbo, "Volcano," original airdate 20 August 1997, written by Trey Parker & Matt Stone



History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. ~Winston Churchill