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Life moves pretty fast.  If you don’t stop to look around once in a while you could miss it.  ~From the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

I tried yoga once but took off for the mall halfway through class, as I had a sudden craving for a soft pretzel and world peace.  ~Terri Guillemets

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.  ~Havelock EllisCUL

The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.  ~Germaine GreerCUL

Anxiety is a deep conscious breath away from dissolving.  ~Mike Dolan, www.hawaiianlife.comtwitter.com/HawaiianLife/status/153309596595920897

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.  ~Author Unknown

One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb

The years teach much which the days never knew.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find myself at the extremity of a long beach.  How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep!  A greeting and a homage to the Sea!  I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow.  That far-resounding roar is the Ocean’s voice of welcome.  His salt breath brings a blessing along with it.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Foot-prints on the Sea-shore"CCQ

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,
Watches beside me in this windy place.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Your body is built for walking.  ~Gary YankerCCQ

I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.  ~George McGovern

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.  ~Edith SitwellCUL

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.  ~Mark Twain

I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.  ~W.E.H. Lecky

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.  ~Elbert Hubbard

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set.  ~Harriet van HorneCUL

Trust only movement.  Life happens at the level of events, not of words.  Trust movement.  ~Alfred Adler

If God had really intended men to fly, he’d make it easier to get to the airport.  ~George Winters

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.  ~Willa Cather, 1913QG

Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action.  Twice would have been quite enough.  ~Confucius, AnalectsMBT

There are whole years for which I hope I’ll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960CDN, TPV

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.  Have you used one to say "thank you?"  ~William A. Ward

Television – the drug of the nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation…
~The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, "Television, the Drug of the Nation" (song)

Not what we give,
But what we share,
For the gift
without the giver
Is bare.
~James Russell LowellGU

It’s difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have – or are.  ~Author Unknown

Words from the past: "It’s a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don’t wire us, we’ll wire you."  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.  ~James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960

Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.  ~Will RogersCUL

Love is like a puzzle.  When you’re in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together.  ~Author Unknown

Discover wildlife:  be a teacher!  ~Author Unknown

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.  ~Arnold Glasow

There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.  ~Martin A. Sullivan

Top off the tea… it lubricates the grey matter.  ~Good Neighborsthe character Jerry Ledbetter, quoted from stashtea.com

The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God.  ~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

Think before you ink!  ~Author Unknown

When the earth floods from global warming, the swimmers will rule the world.  ~Author Unknown

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.  ~Elbert Hubbard

Summer has set in with its usual severity.  ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture….  ~H.G. Wells, The Undying Fire, ch.i, sect.3; NA

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.  ~Aesop, FablesCOCI

Oh, Paddy, dear, an’ did ye hear the news that’s goin’ round?
The shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground!
No more St. Patrick’s Day we’ll keep, his colour can’t be seen,
For there’s a cruel law agin’ the Wearin’ o’ the green.
~Author UnknownCOE

Most people are in a factory from nine till five.  Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles.  At the end of the week they’re three short and somebody has a go at them.  On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about.  ~Rodney Marsh, 1969, about soccer; CDC

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be:  four perfect movements in harmony with each other.  ~Arthur Rubenstein

When you’re arguing with a fool, make sure he isn’t doing the same thing.  ~Author Unknown

Liberty don’t work as good in practice as it does in speeches.  ~Will Rogers

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy…. ~John Adams

Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960CDN, TPV

I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough
to make every hour holy…
~Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours (Das Stunden-Buch), translated from German

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.  ~Mark Twain

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.  ~Lowell

Peace begins with a smile.  ~Mother Teresa

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe
When tipp’d with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;…
Yet thy true lovers more admire by far
Thy naked beauties – give me a cigar!
~George Gordon, Lord Byron, The IslandBMC

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine.  ~Author Unknown

The pursuit of happiness:  skipping is your best chance of catching it.  ~Jessi Lane Adams

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?  ~Aristophanes

  Q: May I link to your site?
Short A:  Yes.
Long A:  Of course you may link to me! You can use a text link to the homepage or any individual pages, or there are linking images if you prefer. Please note, however, that I do not participate in link exchanges.
Quote A:  “A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click.” ~Author Unknown

All things are possible, except for skiing through a revolving door.  ~Author Unknown