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All I've got against it is that it takes you so far from the clubhouse. ~Eric Linklater, Poet's Pub, 1929



It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going. ~Groucho Marx



Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. ~Zen Saying



I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ~Michelangelo



You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. ~Author Unknown



It's not a slam at you when people are rude - it's a slam at the people they've met before. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. ~Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden, 1871



You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. ~Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge



If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it. ~Jerome Singer



It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word. ~Andrew Jackson



The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. ~Fred Allen



In union there is strength. ~Aesop



Consider the man on horseback, and I have been a man on horseback for most of my life. Well, mostly he is a good man, but there is a change in him as soon as he mounts. Every man on horseback is an arrogant man, however gentle he may be on foot. The man in the automobile is one thousand times as dangerous. I tell you, it will engender absolute selfishness in mankind if the driving of automobiles becomes common. It will breed violence on a scale never seen before. It will mark the end of the family as we know it, the three or four generations living happily in one home. It will destroy the sense of neighborhood and the true sense of Nation. It will create giantized cankers of cities, false opulence of suburbs, ruinized countryside, and unhealthy conglomerations of specialized farming and manufacturing. It will make every man a tyrant. ~R.A. Lafferty, "Interurban Queen," 1970, a short story set in the late 1800s (Thanks, Sam)



If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. ~George Bernard Shaw



Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. ~Pubilius Syrus



Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty. ~Lora Brody



It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines. ~Virginia Wade



If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. ~Milton Berle



If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people. ~Simeon Strunsky



Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. ~William Henley