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There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life. ~Elmer Davis



Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ~Ben Hecht



I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. ~Steven Wright



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



The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds. ~Martin H. Fischer



The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." ~Dan Rather



Paraprosdokian: figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe the first part. Example: "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." ~Groucho Marx



There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others. ~Michel de Montaigne



Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ~Henry Fielding, "Love in Several Masques"



Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. ~Imamu Amiri Baraka



All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ~Maurice Maeterlinck



As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894



The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality.... Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality. ~Irving Babbitt



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



Fort Yuma is probably the hottest place on earth. The thermometer stays at one hundred and twenty in the shade there all the time - except when it varies and goes higher. It is a U.S. military post, and its occupants get so used to the terrific heat that they suffer without it. There is a tradition... that a very, very wicked soldier died there, once, and of course, went straight to the hottest corner of perdition, - and the next day he telegraphed back for his blankets. ~Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1872, chapter LVI



We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice. ~John Dewey



Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ~Charles Simic