Take care of the earth and she will take care of you. ~Author Unknown
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ~Lewis B. Smedes, "Forgiveness - The Power to Change the Past," Christianity Today, 7 January 1983 (Thanks, Donna)
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. ~Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin
As long as society is anti-gay, then it will seem like being gay is anti-social. ~Joseph Francis
Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts. ~Laurence Sterne, 1760
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. ~Andy Rooney
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. ~John Updike
People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. ~Edith Wharton
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. ~William Shakespeare
New York, the nation's thyroid gland. ~Christopher Morley, Shore Leave
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. ~Douglas Adams
Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. ~Oscar Wilde
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tyson Gentry
A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race. ~Barbara Christine Seifert
Dick Cheney had a mild heart attack, but they say he'll soon be able to resume his regular activities. I thought having heart attacks was his regular activity. Anyway, since he's a Republican, the heart isn't a major organ. ~Jay Leno
We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us. ~Andy Barrie, Canadians to Americans
Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading. ~Kevin Smith
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. ~Bill Gates
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. ~Napoleon Bonaparte
Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on? ~P.G. Wodehouse
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. ~Booker T. Washington
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
How do people make it through life without a sister? ~Sara Corpening
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