Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ~Gloria Steinem, New York Times, 26 August 1971
Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like. ~Author Unknown
I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end. ~Fred Couples
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used.... Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. ~Gil Bailie
If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. ~Edmund Wilson
A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. ~Matthew 5:14
Welcome to Arizona, where summer spends the winter - and hell spends the summer. ~Popular saying, modified from a booster slogan in the 1930s
This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question. ~Orson Scott Card
The trick is growing up without growing old. ~Casey Stengel
What's the good of news if you haven't a sister to share it? ~Jenny DeVries
The words "I am" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. ~A.L. Kitselman
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft. ~Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers, 1942
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. ~Groucho Marx
Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ~Johann Pestalozzi
I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage. ~Noel Coward
Our genes make us immortal. ~The Secret of Life, PBS
The truth is more important than the facts. ~Frank Lloyd Wright
Love, she said, should be said more slowly, and ran from the house. Words could not catch her as such. Honesty is so slow, that is the trouble. ~Author Unknown
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. ~Paul Simon
Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn. ~Terri Guillemets
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." ~Hans Christian Anderson
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. ~Dave Barry
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