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A user and his leisure time are soon parted. ~Author Unknown



Is not a kiss the very autograph of love? ~Henry Finck



Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. ~Seneca



We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. ~Frank A. Clark



How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? ~Rod Serling, quoted in Submitted for Your Approval, Public Broadcasting Station, 1995



The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929



I wouldn't mind dying - it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me. ~R. Geis



Whenever ideas fail, men invent words. ~Martin H. Fischer



Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. ~Don Wilder and Bill Rechin



It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller



Be thrifty, but not covetous. ~George Herbert



I'm not a doctor and I don't know the technical terminology, but I do know that sunshine activates our happiness glands. ~Jessi Lane Adams



I'm not a cheerleader. I'm an athletic supporter. ~Author Unknown



Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. ~Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversation: Diogenes and Plato



If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. ~Pearl S. Buck



Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate. ~Duke Snider, 1975



The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. ~Dodie Smith



I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~Frances Willard