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It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out. ~George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860



A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy. ~Bob Hope



Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ~Edmund Burke



You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. ~Pablo Picasso



Property is organized robbery. ~George Bernard Shaw



Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers. ~Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour



Take the time to come home to yourself every day. ~Robin Casarjean



It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake



Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means. ~Rudolf C. Binding



The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ~Vladimir Nabakov



We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. ~Frank A. Clark



There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante



A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. ~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885



Analecta: a collection of excerpts from a literary work.



If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly. ~Jack Ohman, Fear of Fly Fishing, 1988



If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. ~Marshall Lumsden



I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. ~Mother Teresa



Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen