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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. ~Aristotle



A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. ~Beryl Markham



The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs. ~D.H. Lawrence



The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy. ~Sam Levenson



In a gathering of two or more people, when a lighted cigarette is placed in an ashtray, the smoke will waft into the face of the non-smoker. ~Author Unknown



Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? Is it because we are not the person involved? ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894



Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis



I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. ~George Carlin



The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ~James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926



Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ~John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells



All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side. ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929



"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want." ~Voltaire



We're the middle children of history.... no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. ~From the movie Fight Club, about Generation X



Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. ~E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, 1960



If you're being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade. ~Author Unknown



When you reduce life to black and white, you never see rainbows. ~Rachel Houston



Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind. ~Mike Harding, The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac, 1981



The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her. ~Francis Thompson



True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. ~William Butler Yeats



No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer. ~Thomas Browne