Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven. ~Mark Twain
Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here. ~John L. Swigert, Jr., Apollo 13 command module pilot, 13 April 1970 Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check? ~Author Unknown
A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks. ~Charles Gordy
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. ~Rosalind Russell
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. ~Rabindranath Tagore
History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time. ~Henry Miller, Plexus
Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse. ~Bill Press
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. ~Vernon Howard
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. ~Woody Hayes
I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. ~J. Edgar Hoover, attributed
Horses and children, I often think, have a lot of the good sense there is in the world. ~Josephine Demott Robinson
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. ~Lord Byron
My granddaughter came to spend a few weeks with me, and I decided to teach her to sew. After I had gone through a lengthy explanation of how to thread the machine, she stepped back, put her hands on her hips, and said in disbelief, "You mean you can do all that, but you can't play my Game Boy?" ~Author Unknown
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1833
History is the propaganda of the victors. ~Ernst Toller
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. ~Abraham Lincoln
Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing. ~E.B. White
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. ~Matthew 15:14
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. ~Leo Tolstoy, What I Believe
Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. ~George Bernard Shaw
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