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A lot of people are willing to give God credit, but so few ever give Him cash. ~Robert E. Harris, Laugh with the Circuit Rider



How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself! ~Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia



Children have more need of models than of critics. ~Carolyn Coats, Things Your Dad Always Told You But You Didn't Want to Hear



Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! ~Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836



An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. ~Adlai Stevenson, as quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs



Perhaps apathy is a wave of emotions too afraid to burst out of the darkness into the bright light of day. ~Carrie Latet



Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ~W.C. Fields



Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. ~Christopher Morley, Thunder on the Left



Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs. ~Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat



To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~Confucius, Analects To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~Confucius, Analects



Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down. ~W. Migner



We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860



Fame is rot; daughters are the thing. ~James Matthew Barrie



Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents. ~Lou Krieger



It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. ~Fred Woodworth



Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. ~Arthur Schopenhauer, "Studies in Pessimism," Psychological Observations, 1851



I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990. ~Dave Barry



It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May. ~Denis Norden



When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man? ~Edith Evans



We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966