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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ~Martin H. Fischer



Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. ~Robert Orben



Age is a prison from which we cannot escape. ~Morrow Bourne



Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shortened by Wednesday. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, "The Gun"



Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment. ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave



"What do you think of God," the teacher asked. After a pause, the young pupil replied, "He's not a think, he's a feel." ~Paul Frost



Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. ~George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections



It is well to remember that a Martian observing his first baseball game would be quite correct in concluding that the last two words of the National Anthem are: PLAY BALL! ~Herbert H. Paper, in Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 April 1989



I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it. ~Thomas Jackson



For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. ~Ed Howe



...the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it... ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. ~E.M. Forster



Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs. ~Tom Wolfe



Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. ~Maurice Baring



When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky. ~Buddha



Commit to be fit. ~Author Unknown



A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. ~Andre Maurois



Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ~John F. Kennedy