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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio speech, 26 October 1939



The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple. ~Doris Janzen Longacre



The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. ~G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"



Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ~Margaret Fuller



That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong! ~Wolfgang Pauli



Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath



We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. ~John Lancaster Spalding



Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. ~John Ruskin



Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them. ~Author Unknown



It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. ~Earl of Chesterfield



I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town. ~Abe Lemons



To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. ~Buddha



What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. ~George Santayana, Reason in Religion



I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ~Harold Ross



Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. ~William Lloyd Garrison



No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus. ~Cicero



A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ~Oscar Wilde



Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. ~Abbott Lawrence Lowell



It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. ~Henry Ward Beecher