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Happiness is like a kiss - it feels best when you give it to someone else. ~Author Unknown



Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety. ~Australian Traffic Rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety. ~Australian Traffic Rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren



The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried. ~Mignon McLaughlin



God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. ~John Muir



Cliche: an expression or idea that has become trite. Examples: "raining cats and dogs," "the pot calling the kettle black," "that's the way the cookie crumbles."



Some people have cats and go on to lead normal lives. ~Author Unknown



I dream of hiking into my old age. ~Marlyn Doan



Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens. ~Jason Q., from generationterrorists.com



The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. ~David Friedman



Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it. ~Jonathan Swift



I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. ~Jennifer Yane



The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859



Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it. ~Soren Kierkegaard, Time, 16 December 1946



The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain



Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. ~G.C. Lichtenberg



Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. ~Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Bobby



The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.



Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions. ~A.A. Latimer



It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is. ~Horace G. Hutchinson