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Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ~Fanny Brice



Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons. ~Letter to the editor, The Advocate



Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~Author Unknown



Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ~Jacques Barzun



If there's no chocolate in heaven, I'm not going. ~Author Unknown



If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes. ~The Houghton Line, November 1965



I always find that statistics are hard to swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable. ~Mrs. Robert A. Taft



The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. ~Samuel Johnson



Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ~George F. Will



I like intellectual reading. It's to my mind what fiber is to my body. ~Grey Livingston



Someone might say of me that I have only made a bouquet of other people's flowers here, having supplied nothing of my own but the thread to bind them. ~Michel de Montaigne Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. ~Gloria Steinem



Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland



The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. ~Author unknown, sometimes attributed to W.M. Lewis



In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt



Thrift was never more necessary in the world's history than it is today. ~Francis H. Sisson



In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ~Henry Miller, The Books in My Life



Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty. ~Michael Dresser



He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. ~Henry David Thoreau



Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage. ~Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly



Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time. ~Martin Luther