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Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me. ~Lord Chesterfield



Skipping is to fly like an angel. ~Opal Montagne



Morality is a private and costly luxury. ~Henry B. Adams, The Education of Henry Adams



Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there? ~Larry Anderson



Don't fling your butt beside the trail and we won't fling your butt in jail. ~Author Unknown



It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days. ~Isabel Waxman



I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. ~Lord Byron



If I stitch fast enough, does it count as aerobic exercise? ~Author Unknown



We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss. ~Charles de Lint



This is a beautiful planet and not at all fragile. Earth can withstand significant volcanic eruptions, tectonic cataclysms, and ice ages. But this canny, intelligent, prolific, and extremely self-centered human creature had proven himself capable of more destruction of life than Mother Nature herself.... We've got to be stopped. ~Michael L. Fischer, Harper's, July 1990



The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in their way. ~William Blake



Whatever it is, it's better in the wind. ~Author Unknown



But make no mistake: the weeds will win; nature bats last. ~Robert M. Pyle



A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ~Oscar Wilde



Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. ~Edwin Markham



It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. ~Georges Duhamel



So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 7



Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering



Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. ~Richard Nixon