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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. ~Joseph Conrad



Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~Victor Hugo



Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ~Douglas Jerrold



If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown



Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. ~Edmund Burke



There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year. ~Author Unknown



By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. ~George Bancroft



An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ~George Eliot, Felix Holt, Chapter 5 (Thanks Julie!)



The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. ~Cicero



I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, "Get the hell off my property." ~Joan Rivers



We're all kissed by angels but some of us never think to pucker. ~Terri Guillemets



The bowling alley is the poor man's country club. ~Sanford Hansell



When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation. ~Vanya Cohen



Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. ~Jean Jacques Rousseau



You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? ~Katherine Mansfield, Bliss and Other Stories



I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people. ~Indira Gandhi



Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket. ~Ambrose Bierce



When darkness descends on summer nights, the air around campfires, lanterns and cottage windows becomes filled with swirling moths seemingly intent on self destruction. The suicide fliers are drawn to the flames and light because they normally navigate a straight course by keeping constant the angle of moonlight or sunbeams falling on their eyes. Night lights created by humans disorient moths, causing them to flutter round and round the source without being able to get their bearings. ~Doug Bennet and Tim Tiner, Up North