When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels. ~Author Unknown
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. ~Evan Esar
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. ~Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. ~John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, 1851
When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. ~John Gardner
When the earth floods from global warming, the swimmers will rule the world. ~Author Unknown
Assumptions are the termites of relationships. ~Henry Winkler
A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend. ~Author Unknown
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. ~S.J. Perelman
Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind. ~W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"
Holden: "You know that song, 'If a body catch a body comin' through the rye'?..."
If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. ~Domenico Cieri Estrada
It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it. ~Julia Child
None are so blind as those who will not see. ~Author Unknown
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. ~W.J. Ronald Tucker
Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine. ~Peter Mere Latham
The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. ~Ezra Pound
Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. ~Ecclesiastes 8:15
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
Santa Claus has the right idea: Visit people once a year. ~Victor Borge
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. ~Edwin Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954
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