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Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. ~Samuel Pepys



Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! ~Henry Ward Beecher



You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. ~Author Unknown



I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops. ~Oscar Wilde



Hatred is one long wait. ~Rene Maran



Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. ~Erich Fromm, Man for Himself, 1947



How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ~Oscar Wilde



God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverb



Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. ~Gene Perret



The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ~Albert Einstein



The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. ~Andre Malraux



Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. ~Ambrose Bierce



Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. ~Matthew 7:1-2



Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb



The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. ~Samuel Johnson



Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down. ~John W. Gardner



Oftentimes the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and a worse, to what every body knew before. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton



You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes. ~Walter M. Schirra, Sr.



A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night. ~J.M. Barrie