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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks, May 1849



You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He is more particular.... The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. ~Robert Frost



I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. ~Gandhi I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. ~Gandhi



A neurotic whose problems are solved was never a neurotic to begin with. ~Terri Guillemets



He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration. ~Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities, 1930



Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. ~Lin Yutang



It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



My garden is my favorite teacher. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854



Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy. ~Charles Frankel



Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon. ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Lisa



It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken. ~Aristotle



Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. ~Author Unknown



Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ~Francis Bacon



Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions. ~Didier D�haese



As ye sew, so shall ye rip. ~Author Unknown



And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~William Shakespeare



Great art picks up where nature ends. ~Marc Chagall



You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ~Attributed to both Golda Meir and Indira Gandhi



A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau