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Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Skepticism is history's bedfellow. ~Edgar Saltus



Sometimes... when you hold out for everything, you walk away with nothing. ~From the television show Ally McBeal



Don't worry, it only seems kinky the first time. ~Author Unknown



And, little Butterfly! Indeed



Do what we can, summer will have its flies. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



When you blame others, you give up your power to change. ~Author Unknown



Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. ~Lord Dewar



What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. ~Jane Austen (Also not about Arizona, but fitting!) What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. ~Jane Austen



Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything - except his own mistakes. ~Author Unknown



Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. ~Samuel Lover



Nothing there but basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo. ~Ogden Nash



You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. ~Pubilius Syrus



Who watches golf on TV? Who calls eight friends over and gets a keg of beer? Landscapers, I guess. They sit around the TV, yelling, "Will you look at that golf path? Pure pea gravel." ~Jeff Cesario



Why do we alienate ourselves so much from our bodies? It's that big piece of machinery attached to your head. ~Carrie Latet



When you're used to hearing purring and suddenly it's gone, it's hard to silence the blaring sound of sadness. ~Missy Altijd



It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone. ~Deborah Whipp



I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light. ~Mary Gardiner Brainard

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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. ~Quentin Crisp



A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years. ~John Fischer



Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas. ~John Burton Brimer



I would have thought that the knowledge that you are going to be leapt upon by half-a-dozen congratulatory, but sweaty team-mates would be inducement not to score a goal. ~Arthur Marshall



At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb



A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. ~George Eliot



The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage. ~Aeschylus, The Suppliant Maidens



The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize lecture, 11 December 1968



Do vegetarians eat animal crackers? ~Author Unknown



History is a pageant and not a philosophy. ~Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta: The Muse of History



If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose. ~Ulysses S. Grant



It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. ~Joseph Joubert



I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird



Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. ~Havelock Ellis, On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue, 1937



May the lights of Hanukkah usher in a better world for all humankind. ~Author Unknown



Coffee in styrofoam is against my religion. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. ~Roger Caras

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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. ~Arnold Bennett



What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. ~Bodie Thoene, Warsaw Requiem



You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four. ~Dan Birdwell



A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. ~Edward Teller



I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before. ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Paul Varjak



But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. ~Francis Darwin



Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family



For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. ~Elizabeth Bowen



How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. ~Alfred de Musset



Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft. ~Sven Nykvist



If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower



I want you to remember, I intend this breast satirically. ~Coupling, "Flushed," original airdate 12 May 2000, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Susan



What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows. ~Epictetus, Discourses



Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. ~Ugo Betti



So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ~Booth Tarkington



History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity. ~Dexter Perkins



He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. ~Rudyard Kipling



I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. ~Voltaire



I always fear that creation will expire before teatime. ~Sydney Smith



You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going. ~Author Unknown