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Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. ~Horace Smith



In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. ~Robert Benchley



War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play at. ~William Cowper



The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word "fuck." ~Author Unknown



I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a heart donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures. ~Christian Barnard, surgeon



There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett



Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. ~Brian Kernighan



Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within. ~Laurence van der Post



I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell. ~Alec Yuill Thornton



Every writer I know has trouble writing. ~Joseph Heller



Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ~Albert Einstein, The World As I See It, 1934



Unlike poetry and music, the art of history is cumulative. ~John Clive, Not By Fact Alone



A dream has power to poison sleep. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Mutability"



For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. ~Doug Larson



No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. ~Terry Josephson



Prose: ordinary speech or writing, without metrical structure.



A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart. ~Peggy Noonan



Oh, wise physician of a wasted land! ~Hermann Hagedorn



Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation. ~Kin Hubbard