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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ~Victor Hugo How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ~Victor Hugo
It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for. ~Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. ~Alfred North Whitehead
Yet some things you miss and some things you lose by keeping your arm outstretched. ~Author Unknown
The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell. ~Christopher Marlowe
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~Author Unknown
To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable. ~Barry M. Goldwater and Jack Casserly, Goldwater
My heart would be yours if it wasn't already mine. ~Emily W, @BluePotential
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts! ~William Shakespeare, Othello
It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think. ~Rene Descartes, Discourse on the Method, 1637 (translated)
He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic. ~Nicolas Bentley
Common sense is not so common. ~Voltaire
A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer. ~Thomas Carlyle, letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 17 November 1843
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. ~Mark Twain
Education should be exercise; it has become massage. ~Martin H. Fischer
A game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. ~Author Unknown, plagiarized from the Samuel Johnson quotation "It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the priveleges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood," which was not written about golf (Thanks, Frank Lynch)
It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher. ~Charles Peirce
The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez