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Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? ~Frank Scully



Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ~Bill Vaughn



The shadows: some hide, others reveal. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine. ~H.L. Mencken



Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb



The funny thing about firemen is, night and day, they are always firemen. ~Gregory Widen, Backdraft



America is the only country ever founded on the printed word. ~Marshall McLuhan



People need to understand that when they're deciding between breastmilk and formula, they're not deciding between Coke and Pepsi.... They're choosing between a live, pure substance and a dead substance made with the cheapest oils available. ~Chele Marmet



A grownup is a child with layers on. ~Woody Harrelson



We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872



There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. ~Andrew Carnegie



The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie



He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. ~W.J. Cameron



The story of America's quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots. ~Randy Vader



Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. ~S.J. Perelman



As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness." ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958



When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt



He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem. ~Eddie Shaw, referring to Herol "Bomber" Graham



Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ~Will Rogers



You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com