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Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention. ~Ian Hay



No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the eight-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing. It's okay though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the eight-color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean, there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation, so when I meet someone who's an eight-color type I'm like, "hey girl, magenta!" and she's like, "oh, you mean purple!" and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, "no - I want magenta!" ~John Mayer



Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth



It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the men whose people have been here many generations. ~Henry Cabot Lodge



Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. ~John Updike, Self-Consciousness, 1989



We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. ~Fulton Oursler



Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. ~Abba Eban



We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ~Martin L. Gross, A Call for Revolution, 1993



'Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon,



One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! ~George Eliot



Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. Waste not the smallest time in imbecile infirmity, for well thou knowest that seconds form eternity. ~E. Knight



Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. ~Martin Fowler



Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ~Shana Alexander



When you're attracted to someone it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously, so what we know as fate is two neuroses knowing that they're a perfect match. ~Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron, and David S. Ward, Sleepless in Seattle



If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ~Vincent Van Gogh



To me, being an American means feeling safe. ~Currielene Armstrong



Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film. ~Author Unknown



There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com