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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ~G.K. Chesterton



It takes a lot of experience for a girl to kiss like a beginner. ~Ladies Home Journal, 1948



Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day. ~Stephen Jay Gould, "Our Allotted Lifetimes," The Panda's Thumb, 1980



The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard



America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949



The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. ~Thich Nhat Hanh



The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb



It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle



Angels sail back to God on the sea of joy. ~Terri Guillemets



Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug ten people at a time. ~Drew Barrymore



If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. ~Calvin Coolidge



To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. ~Henri Frederic Amiel



I'm on a seafood diet. I see food and I eat it. ~Author Unknown



Insight is better than eyesight when it comes to seeing an angel. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. ~Earl Wilson



The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. ~G.K. The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing." ~Daniel J. Boorstin



This coffee tastes like mud! Well, it was ground this morning. ~Old Vaudeville joke



A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. ~Fred Woodworth, The Match!, No. 79