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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. ~Henry David Thoreau



Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is. ~Rebecca West, The Strange Necessity, 1928



To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. ~David T. Wolf



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



Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. ~Lewis Grizzard



Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ~William Faulkner



That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball. ~Bill Veeck, 1976



Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again. ~Lady Bird Johnson



The moon is like a mystery novel, the sun like a motivational self-help book, and the stars a coffee table book of photography. The sky is the whole library, and God the librarian. ~Terri Guillemets



Nurses don't wait until October to celebrate Make a Difference Day - they make a difference every day! ~Author Unknown



A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women. ~Author Unknown



When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash - at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance. ~Thomas Merton When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. ~William Shakespeare, King Lear



The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. ~John Kemeny



Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. ~Allen Tate



The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



No matter what happens... somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"



Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. ~Sigmund Freud



Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers. ~Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship



One man's constant is another man's variable. ~Alan J. Perlis