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Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. ~Kathryn Carpenter



High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing... everything else is just figure skating. ~Author Unknown



We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. ~Alexander Solzhenitsyn



No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. ~Henry Kissinger



I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting. ~Sylvester Stallone



Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things. ~Author Unknown



Being an American is a spectator sport. ~Brock Fiant



All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds. ~George Bernard Shaw



Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~George Eliot



Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium! ~Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Part II



Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety. ~Australian Traffic Rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren



It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passions, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. ~Andre Gide, Journals, 13 September 1938



Whether we are filled with joy or grief, our angels are close to us, speaking to our hearts of God's love. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. ~Henry David Thoreau, "Chesuncook," The Maine Woods, 1848



I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. ~Mark Twain I am enamored with desert dew because it's usually the closest thing we get to rain. ~Linda Solegato



You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people. ~Will Rogers



Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it. ~Paul Vixie



Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. ~Gaston Bachelard Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. ~Ben Hogan



Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ~Albert Einstein