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But that's what being an artist is - feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy. ~The New Yorker



America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness. ~Aurora Raigne



Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. ~Proverbs 31:25-28



Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. ~Arnold Toynbee



You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day. ~Daniel Behrman, The Man Who Loved Bicycles



How good does a female athlete have to be before we just call her an athlete? ~Author Unknown



Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ~John Cotton Dana



So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky. ~Russell Baker, New York Times, 21 July 1969



Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another. ~Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces, 1977



I prefer the word homemaker, because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. ~Bella Abzug



Golf is the cruelest of sports. Like life, it's unfair. It's a harlot. A trollop. It leads you on. It never lives up to its promises.... It's a boulevard of broken dreams. It plays with men. And runs off with the butcher. ~Jim Murray



What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. ~Agnes M. Pahro



He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle. ~Ring Lardner



This morning, prompted by increasing concerns about terrorism, oil prices reached a record high as the cost of a barrel of crude is a whopping $44.34. Wow, it seems shocking that a product of finite supply gets more expensive the more we use it. Now the terror alert means higher oil prices, which oddly enough means higher profits for oil companies giving them more money to give to politicians whose policies may favor the oil companies such as raising the terror alert level. As Simba once told us: "It's the circle of life." ~Jon Stewart



Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles. ~Sonja Henie



An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb



Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. ~Juan Ramon Jimenez



Hot Topic Quotations: August 2002



O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller



History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley