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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni



To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. ~Will and Ariel Durant



No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. ~Christopher Morley



He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed. ~Harry Kalas, on Garry Maddox, 1981



Through dancing many maidens have been unmaidened, whereby I may say it is the storehouse and nursery of bastardy. ~John Northbrooke



It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. ~C.W. Leadbeater



A lot of top guys have dark moods. That Winston Churchill drank a quart of brandy before breakfast. Napoleon, he was a moody fuck, too. ~Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, The Sopranos, "Isabella," original airdate 28 March 1999, spoken by the character Silvio Dante



Life is God's novel. Let him write it. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer



Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time. ~T.A. Sachs, to "Time! where didst thou those years inter, Which I have seene decease?" by William Habington



We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick W. Faber



Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt



A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. ~Bernard de Fontenelle



The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. ~Sigmund Freud, attributed



The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~William Wordsworth



The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. ~Bede Jarrett



I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. ~Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912



Aphorism, n.: Predigested wisdom. ~Ambrose Bierce



It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes. ~Terri Minsky, Sex and the City, "The Baby Shower



If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. ~Thomas Fuller



Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. ~George Bernard Shaw