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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. ~Wendell Johnson



You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb



Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ~Albert Einstein



Many continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game. ~George Mikes, How to Be an Alien, 1946



A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000. ~Leonard L. Levinson



Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God. ~Author Unknown



The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it. ~Louis Simpson



Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. ~Werner Finck



We have two lives - the one we learn with and the life we live after that. ~Bernard Malamud, The Natural



A little chocolate is like a love affair - an occasional sweet release that lightens the spirit. A lot of chocolate is like marriage - it seems so good at first but before you know it you've got chunky hips and a waddle-walk. ~Linda Solegato



You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life. ~Grantland Rice



Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer. ~Plutarch, Moralia



When some high-sounding institute states that a compound is harmless or a process free of risk, it is wise to know whence the institute or the scientists who work there obtain their financial support. ~Lancet, editorial on the "medical-industrial complex," 1973



Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~Ludwig van Beethoven



He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. ~The Epic of Gilgamesh



Things are never so bad they can't be made worse. ~From the movie The African Queen



My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. ~Edward Elgar



The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul. ~John Quincy Adams