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The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous. ~Diodorus Siculus, c. 20 BC



Charm is... a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956



Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb



Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. ~William W. Watt



Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside. ~Quoted in Believe: A Christmas Treasury by Mary Engelbreit



To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. ~Lord Byron



Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism. ~John M. Shanahan, The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)



No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. ~Euripides



Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. ~Theodore Parker



If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. ~Eric Bentley



Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. ~Henry Emerson Fosdick



Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value. ~Ralph Nader



Dreams are free, so free your dreams. ~Astrid Alauda



It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses. ~George William Curtis



It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. ~"Homer Simpson," from the television show The Simpsons



Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? "Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel." ~The Washington Post



You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one. ~Carrie Latet



If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi



Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. ~Jean Genet