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Time is the fire in which we burn. ~Delmore Schwartz, "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day," 1937 (Thanks, George)



Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. ~Elbert Hubbard



It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything. ~John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690



Quote A: �If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.� ~Toni Morrison



What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. ~Liz Carpenter



If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive. ~American Quaker Saying



He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. ~Thomas Paine



May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. ~Joey Adams



Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ~Simone Signoret



What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes. ~Timothy Virkkala



Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz



An intellectual is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger. ~John Chesson



Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention. ~Cornelia Otis Skinner, attributed



The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change. ~Lowell



If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. ~Earl Wilson



Cats speak a subtle language in which few sounds carry many meanings, depending on how they are sung or purred. "Mnrhnh" means comfortable soft chairs. It also means fish. It means genial companionship... and the absence of dogs. ~Val Schaffner



If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance. ~Andrea Boydston



The only jobs for which no man is qualified are human incubators and wet nurse. Likewise, the only job for which no woman is or can be qualified is sperm donor. ~Wilma Scott Heide



Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS. ~Gene Perret



If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says "keep away from children." ~Susan Savannah