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Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years



The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay



As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. ~Proverbs 25:25



I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life. ~Sydney Smith



Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp. ~From a Washington Post reader submission word contest



To me, novels are just quotations with a bunch of filler. ~Terri Guillemets



Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile? ~Lynn Hecht Schafren



The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game. ~Chuck Tanner, quoted in The Sporting News, 15 July 1985



Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies. ~Gene Hill



The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverb



That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. ~Alfred Hitchcock



I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before. ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Paul Varjak



The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience. ~Author Unknown



Food. Water. Shelter. Air. Sleep. Societal inflation has expanded need into greed. Suddenly the basic survival needs also include a cell phone, cable TV, and French manicured fingernails.... We've become the absolute biggest whiners of all human history with the absolute smallest justification for whining. ~Charlie Diekatze



We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. ~Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead



Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease. ~Author Unknown



Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything. ~Toby Harrah, 1983



Sometimes I suffer from indigestion of the mind. ~Carrie Latet



Antanaclasis: repeating a single word but with a different meaning each time. This is a common type of pun and is often found in slogans. Example: "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." ~Vince Lombardi