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A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her. ~W.C. Fields



Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. ~Mark Twain



Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ~H.G. Wells, The Outline of History



America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. ~Laurence J. Peter



The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. ~Thomas Jefferson



Success has made failures of many men. ~Cindy Adams



For love of country they accepted death... ~James A. Garfield



A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart. ~Peggy Noonan



More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. ~Thomas Boswell, in Inside Sports



Property has its duties as well as its rights. ~Thomas Drummond



Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. ~Michel de Montaigne



The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill



To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955



A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position. ~Oscar Wilde



Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. ~Frederic Chopin



A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. ~Elmer G. Letterman



I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said 'Stop! don't do it!' 'Why shouldn't I?' he said. I said, 'Well, there's so much to live for!' He said, 'Like what?' I said, 'Well...are you religious or atheist?' He said, 'Religious.' I said, 'Me too! Are you Christian or Buddhist?' He said, 'Christian.' I said, 'Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?' He said, 'Protestant.' I said, 'Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?' He said, 'Baptist!' I said, 'Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist church of god or Baptist church of the lord?' He said, 'Baptist church of god!' I said, 'Me too! Are you original Baptist church of god, or are you reformed Baptist church of god?' He said, 'Reformed Baptist church of god!' I said, 'Me too! Are you reformed Baptist church of god, reformation of 1879, or reformed Baptist church of god, reformation of 1915?' He said, 'Reformed Baptist church of god, reformation of 1915!' I said, 'Die, heretic scum,' and pushed him off. ~Emo Phillips



I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam. ~Richard Bach



The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities? ~Emma Goldman, Anarchism



The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally. ~Samuel H. Hammond