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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ~Samuel Butler, Erewhon



He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation... For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent.... We, therefore... solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States. ~The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies, 1776



Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald



Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting. ~Lou Krieger



Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau



On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks. ~Jon Stewart



Cats speak a subtle language in which few sounds carry many meanings, depending on how they are sung or purred. "Mnrhnh" means comfortable soft chairs. It also means fish. It means genial companionship... and the absence of dogs. ~Val Schaffner



I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~Denis Waitely



There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. ~Robert Orben



I got into an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because then I tried to walk out and slammed the flap. How are you supposed to express your anger in this situation? Zipper it up really quick? ~Mitch Hedberg



The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire. ~Sharon Ralls Lemon



I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget. ~William Lyon Phelps



Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. ~Victor Hugo



There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. ~Ovid, Metamorphoses There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



She was what we used to call a suicide blond - dyed by her own hand. ~Saul Bellow



A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Author Unknown



A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life. ~Lee Drake



One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds. ~John Burroughs, Pepacton, 1881