The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently. ~Margaret Smith
There are several ways in which to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory. ~Robert Benchley
In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. ~Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950
Beware the fury of a patient man. ~John Dryden, Absolam and Achitophel, 1680
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart. ~John Wesley
A daughter is a gift of love. ~Author Unknown
I can see the orange haze on the horizon as the morning exhales a yawn, and seems to be ready to rise. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. ~Pliny the Younger, Letters
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. ~Jawaharlal Nehru
The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose. ~William Simon
To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage. ~George Washington
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened. ~Elias Canetti, The Human Province
States!... Go put your creed into your deed. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. ~Ray Bradbury living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. ~Author Unknown
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown
If God wanted us to be brave, why did He give us legs? ~Marvin Kitman
I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean's voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Foot-prints on the Sea-shore"
If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you. ~Bruce Lee
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~Voltaire
Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands. ~Jayne Mansfield
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
Speed is not your fastest, but your slowest man. No back can run faster than his interference. ~Jock Sutherland
Homosexuality is a sickness, just as are baby-rape or wanting to become head of General Motors. ~Eldridge Cleaver, "Notes on a Native Son," Soul on Ice, 1968
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