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Whatever the American's are proud of - whatever they consider to be particularly good, useful, brilliant, or characteristic of themselves or their climate, they designate, half in jest, though scarcely half in earnest, as an "institution." Thus the memory of George Washington... is an institution; the Falls of Niagara are an institution; the Plymouth Rock, on which the Pilgrim Fathers first set foot, is an institution...; "Sweet potatoes" are an institution, and Pumpkin (or Punkin) pie is an institution; ...squash is an institution; Bunker Hill is an institution; and the firemen of New York are a great institution. ~Charles Mackay, Life and Liberty in America, 1850



God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through. ~Paul Valery, Mauvaises pensees et autres, 1942



No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ~Abraham Lincoln



There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain. ~W. Somerset Maugham



But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Witticism: a smart saying, notable for its form rather than content.



And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess." ~Art Buchwald, 1970



How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. ~Paul Sweeney



A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature. ~Murray Kempton



I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that - as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. ~Charles Dickens



Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument! ~Justin Winsor



Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. ~Fred Allen



A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ~Walt Whitman



A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden. ~Samuel Johnson



If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. ~Jack Lemmon



Every vice has its excuse ready. ~Publilius Syrus



Night has become painful for me. It brings to light the regrets of the day. ~Grey Livingston



Let freedom never perish in your hands. ~Joseph Addison



I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little. ~Sheila Kaye-Smith



Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966