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Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all. ~Emily Dickinson



The birds are molting. If only man could molt also - his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions. ~James Allen



I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind. ~Virginia Cary Hudson, O Ye Jigs & Juleps, 1962 (Thanks, Charlene)



A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb



We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings. ~Erma Bombeck



When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. ~Charles Anderson Dana



Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it. ~Pablo Casals



What you call a hero, I call just doing my job. ~Author Unknown



Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you get off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking. ~Gene Mauch



The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. ~Sigmund Freud



Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. ~George Bush



If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly. ~Max Nordau



Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved. ~Susan Diane Murphree



Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968



When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket. ~Elbert Hubbard



All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon. ~Voltaire, Jeannot et Colin



Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. ~George Bernard Shaw