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If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National. ~George Will



Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons



If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it. ~Earl Wilson



Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. ~Henri Frederic Amiel



A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Alexander Pope, in Swift, Miscellanies



In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? ~Barack Obama, Keynote Address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, 2004 Jul 27



On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. ~Douglas Horton



Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves. ~Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man



God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted. ~Stephen Crotts



The Bible is literature, not dogma. ~George Santayana



To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime. ~Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize 1915



Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank? ~Walt Whitman Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. ~H.L. Mencken



Joy is a flower that blooms when you do. ~Author Unknown



Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859



Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning



People always think something's all true. ~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye



If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever. ~George Orwell



There are some remedies worse than the disease. ~Publilius Syrus



When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too. ~Linda Solegato



Women agonize... over cancer; we take as a personal threat the lump in every friend's breast. ~Martha Weinman Lear, Heartsounds