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My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot. ~Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, 1978



A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ~Robert Frost



A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ~Samuel McChord Crothers, "Every Man's Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else" The Dame School of Experience, 1920



I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ~Henry Ward Beecher



We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt... ~Dorothy Day



Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. ~Edwin Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954



Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey



Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb



The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge



The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars' worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk. ~P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners, 1984



Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb



Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world. ~Anso Coetzer



I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ~Larry Bird



To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ~George Santayana



Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. ~Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, Witches and other Night Fears, 1823



It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. ~Raymond Chandler



The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. ~Newton D. Baker



Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink. ~Mark Twain, Note-Book, 1935



If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. ~Russell Hoban



I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. ~Norman Mailer