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If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed. ~Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin



In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. ~Sydney Smith



Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams. ~Roger Kahn



The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. ~Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939



What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. ~Margot Asquith



All bicycles weigh fifty pounds. A thirty-pound bicycle needs a twenty-pound lock. A forty-pound bicycle needs a ten-pound lock. A fifty-pound bicycle doesn't need a lock. ~Author Unknown



Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ~Thomas Jefferson



Sisters share the scent and smells - the feel of a common childhood. ~Pam Brown



There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. ~Winston Churchill



Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. ~Bertold Brecht



We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. ~John F. Kennedy



History only exists, in the final analysis, for God. ~Albert Camus, The Rebel



If we were all like angels, the world would be a heavenly place. ~Author Unknown



Like those special afternoons in summer when you go to Yankee Stadium at two o'clock in the afternoon for an eight o'clock game. It's so big, so empty and so silent that you can almost hear the sounds that aren't there. ~Ray Miller



Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. ~Frank A. Clark



The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. ~Bill Gates



What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverb



Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. ~Author Unknown



In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished. ~Charles Kendall Adams



The aphorist sees in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com