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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 15



People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes: men and women. ~Author Unknown



We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick W. Faber



While breastfeeding may not seem the right choice for every parent, it is the best choice for every baby. ~Amy Spangler



Bromide: informal term for a platitude that is especially dull, tiresome, or annoying; so often repeated it has lost its meaning.



You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. ~Aldous Huxley



Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. ~Grey Livingston



Save a tree. Eat a beaver. ~Author Unknown



Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him. ~Proverbs 26:12



Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~Buddha



Retirement is one great big giant coffee break. ~Author Unknown



You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. ~Author Unknown



Growth is the only evidence of life. ~John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864



Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. ~Samuel Johnson



Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands. ~Jayne Mansfield



The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. ~S. Gudder



I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed. ~George Carlin



A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. 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. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast. ~W.J. Cameron



The best thing about doing needlepoint for very small children is that they are so uncritical. The don't say things like, "I see you've missed some stitches over here on the leg, was that intentional?" or "Was this creature blinded in a fight?" They will clasp it in their little arms and love it besottedly, inseparably as the thing becomes more and more rancid. ~Carole Berman and Jennifer Lazarus