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Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken. ~Idries Shah



Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. ~Henry H. Tweedy



It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. ~Fred Woodworth



Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children. ~Cindy Garner



The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not. ~Mark Twain The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage. ~Peggy Ryan



Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~George Eliot



Nurses - one of the few blessings of being ill. ~Sara Moss-Wolfe



Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Following the Equator, 1897



I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. ~Author Unknown



When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge



A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle. ~Author Unknown



Common sense is not so common. ~Voltaire



War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future. ~Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)



Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail. ~Mark van Doren



To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. ~Phyllis Theroux



The fluttering of a butterfly's wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet. ~Paul Erlich



From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. ~Edvard Munch



Curlers do it hard. ~Saying of the sport