The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end. ~Don Marquis
We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike. ~Evelyn Underhill, Letters
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. ~Samuel Johnson
Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. ~Robert Orben
It takes a while, but eventually we appreciate that the people who were always there for the special occasions of our youth had other things to do. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats. ~Douglas Busch
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Anderson
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. ~Baha'u'llah
Women.... Who made 'em? God must have been a... genius. Their hair. They say that the hair is everything, you know? Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls, and just wanted to go to sleep forever? ~Bo Goldman, "The Start of an Education," made popular by the movie Scent of a Woman
It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859
There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. ~Charles D. Gill
When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels. ~Author Unknown
Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank. ~Ben Irwin
Keep a thing seven years and it's bound to come in handy. ~Russian Proverb
You are my sonshine. ~Author Unknown
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. ~Harriet Nelson
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. ~Douglas Adams
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ~Ernest Hemingway
A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is." ~Keith L. Brooks
There are rich counsels in the trees. ~Herbert P. Horne
I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve! ~Catharine M. Sedgwick
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. ~Joyce Brothers
Money doesn't talk, it swears. ~Bob Dylan, "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
I sing like I feel. ~Ella Fitzgerald
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