Quotidian Quotes

Authors named where known. Some quotes come from buttons I've acquired over the years at SF conventions. The dog quotes were sent on by a family relative in Hawaii. Some are from anywhere. (New quotes will be randomly inserted, where they feel "appropriate".)

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The use of quotations shows primarily not what a person believes, but what that person aspires to believe.
A fact: one picks it up and reads it, and puts it down, and there is an end to it. But an idea! That one may pick up, and reflect upon, and oppose, and expand, and so pass a delightful afternoon altogether. -- Mary Oliver.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. -- Robert Louis Stevenson.
People will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time they will pick themselves up and carry on.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer
Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious. -- Carl Jung
One should respect public opinion insofar as necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. -- Bertrand Russell.
Those who are willing to trade their liberty for security deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin
Philosophy is the attempt to catch a black cat in a dark room, without the cat actually being there at all. -- Pablo Cruz.
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. -- Hannah Arendt.
Bread that must be sliced with an ax is too wholesome. -- Fran Lebowitz.
See who you are. Be what you see. -- B.A. Chepaitis.
We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things. -- Montaigne.
Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not go through it? -- Robert D. Ballard.
Truth is the daughter of time. -- Old English proverb.
Don't let anyone tell you that you cannot know the truth for yourself or that you cannot achieve yourself spiritually without being tied to a temple or church. You were not born a spiritual slave. You are the authority who distinguishes what is true and untrue, spiritual and unspiritual. -- Hua-Ching Ni.
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Many of the truths we cling to depend on our own point of view. -- Yoda, from Star Wars.
When small men cast long shadows, the sun is going down. -- Venita Craven.
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is soley and precisely that it is expected to work. -- John von Neumann.
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife which has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries. -- James Madison
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. -- Robert Frost
Life does not wait: Whether we spend our lives meaningfully or not, the time will be used up moment by moment. -- the Dalai Lama.
Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx.
Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac who stays up all night wondering if there really is a Dog?
Never trust a dog to watch your food. -- Patrick, age 10.
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw
Where you come from isn't as important as where you are going.
The universe is made of stories -- not of atoms. -- Muriel Rukeyser.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. -- Sir Isaac Newton.
It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present. -- Farley Mowat
I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any. -- Edward Abbey.
If you would not be forgotten/ As soon as you are dead and rotten,/ Either write things worthy reading,/ Or do things worth the writing. -- Benjamin Franklin.
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
Some people's unwillingness to think for themselves represents accurate self-evaluation. -- Arthur D. Hlavaty.
The moment you start putting people into categories is the moment you open yourself up to being prejudiced. -- Michael McCanlin.
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? -- Kahil Gibran
If all mankind, minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind...We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- Originally published 1859.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human. -- Salman Rushdie.
To see a world in a grain of sand/ And a heaven in a wild flower,/ Hold infinity in the palm of your hand/ And eternity in an hour. -- William Blake.
The map is not the territory, but you can't fold up the territory and put it in the glove compartment. -- Arthur D. Hlavaty.
When people say they're looking for the meaning of life, what they're really looking for is a deep experience of it. -- Joseph Campbell.
I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty. -- Michel Montaigne.
Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have. -- Alice Walker.
In a dark time, the eye begins to see. -- Theodore Roethke.
My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom. -- Martha Gellhorn.
Puritanism -- the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. -- H.L.Mencken.
Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be. -- Octavia Butler.
Time is just nature's way of making sure everything doesn't happen at once.
There's more than one answer to those questions pointing me in a crooked line/The less I seek my source in some definitive/The closer I am to fine. -- Emily Saliers.
Something's got to change 'round here... -- Seven Nations.
Donald E. Carr points out that the sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain: "This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals percieve the universe as it is." -- Annie Dillard.
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. -- Fran Lebowitz.
All culture developed as some wild, raw creature strived to live better and longer. -- Mary Oliver.
What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, an all-embracing tolerance -- in brief, what is commonly called good sportsmanship. -- H. L. Mencken.
What does education do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. --Henry David Thoreau.
When I dare to be powerful -- to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. -- Audre Lorde.
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi.
Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom? -- Mary Oliver.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. -- Elizabeth Taylor.
Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees. -- Aretha Franklin.
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway. -- Eric Idle.
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. -- J. Krishnamurti.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own. -- Montaigne.
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly related by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. -- Lisa Alther.
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person of pre-Adamite ancestral descent.... I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. -- W. S. Gilbert.
Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it, and when to let it alone. -- H.L. Mencken.
A penny saved is a penny to squander. --Ambrose Bierce.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. -- Pablo Picasso.
Nobody sees a flower -- really -- it is so small it takes time -- we haven't time -- and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. -- Georgia O'Keefe.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief, and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. -- Katherine Mansfield.
One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would die of boredom. -- Susan Howatch.
Onr knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth. -- Gabrielle Roy.
To move freely you must be deeply rooted. -- Bella Lewitzky.
I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness, of course, but it cannot deliver to us the radiance we apprehend in the world, any more than a photograph can capture the stunning swiftness of a hawk or the withering power of a supernova... All that pictures or words can do is gesture beyond themselves toward the fleeting glory that stirs our hearts. So I keep gesturing. -- Scott Russell Sanders.
To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier. -- Salman Rushdie.
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. -- Ann Landers.
In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. -- Dereke Bruce.
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she isn't amusing herself with me more than I am with her? -- Montaigne.
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. -- Edward Abbey.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. -- Anaïs Nin.
What's the use of having a big mouth if you can't put your foot in it about once a day?
It's better for the heart to break, than not to break. -- Mary Oliver.
Art is a moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. -- Rita Mae Brown.
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. -- Ann Landers.
I find TV very educational. As soon as someone turns it on, I immediately go to the library and read a good book. -- Groucho Marx.
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships. -- Andy Warhol.
Television changed the American child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.
Everything that is in the heavens, on the earth, and under the earth, is penetrated with connectiveness, penetrated with relatedness. -- Hildegard of Bingen.
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. -- Joseph Chilton Pearce.
If I want to hear the pitter-patter of little feet, I'll put shoes on my cat. -- Jenny Dailey-O'Cain.
There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive. -- Robertson Davies.
One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature. -- James Joyce.
No spirituality worth a dime requires only one path to access it.
Education is what you have left over after you have forgotten everything you've learned.
If you think I need to be saved from myself, I probably need to be saved from you.
It is not certain that everything is uncertain. -- Blaise Pascal.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. -- Baruch Spinoza.
I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed. -- Wilson Mizner.
An eye for an eye will make the whole world go blind. -- Mahatmas Gandhi.
Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. -- Rachel Carson.
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. -- H.L. Mencken.
High culture is the ability to hear the William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger. -- Arthur D. Hlavaty.
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. -- Margaret Young.
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. -- Abigail Van Buren.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. -- Mark Twain.
Ever consider what they [dogs] must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul- chicken, pork, half cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! -- Anne Tyler.
I loved working in a library. There was something to be said about working in a place bound in leather. -- Peter Verheyen
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work. -- Thomas Edison.
Better late than before anybody has invited you. -- Ambrose Bierce.
Conform, go crazy, or become a writer.
Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. -- Ingrid Bengis.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. -- Edward Gibbon.
Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter. -- Jo Walton.
Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant.
Cats would rule the world if they had longer attention spans. -- Arthur D. Hlavaty.
If olive oil comes from olives and corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from?
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. -- David Brinkley.
Man was born into barbarism, when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ignorance breeds fear.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. -- Muriel Rukeyser.
That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time. -- John Stuart Mill.
We are warmed by the fire, not by the smoke of the fire. We are carried over the sea by a ship, not by the wake of the ship. So too, what we are is to be sought in the invisible depths of our own being, not in our outward reflection in our own acts. We must find our real selves not in the froth stirred up by the impact of our being upon the beings around us, but in our own soul which is the principle of all our acts. -- Thomas Merton.
When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included? -- Mary Oliver.
People say that what we are seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. -- Joseph Campbell.
I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. -- Abraham Lincoln.
Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious. -- A.N. Whitehead.
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. -- Reverend McWallclock.
I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon. -- Kahil Gibran.
(Men) use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to conceal their thoughts. -- Voltaire.
Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground. -- George Carlin.
Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed? -- Arthur D. Hlavaty.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. -- Oscar Wilde.
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Writing a book is like scrubbing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what you've already covered.
There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed. -- Peter Sellers.
As I grow older and older,/ And totter towards the tomb,/ I find that I care less and less/ Who goes to bed with whom. -- Dorothy L. Sayers.
Science has proof without any certainity. Creationists have certainity without any proof. -- Ashley Montague.
Not only must we follow the golden thread towards spiritual freedom, but we must also unravel the garden-variety twine that is wrapped tightly around our hearts and minds. -- Elizabeth Lesser.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. -- Kahil Gibran.
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. -- Aldous Huxley.
He laughs best who laughs least. --Ambrose Bierce.
Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard. -- Kahil Gibran.
Every culture foments something.
The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate -- it is life, intensified, brilliant life. -- Alain Arias-Misson.
Not all who wander are lost.
The first secret of getting what you want is knowing what you want. -- Arthur D. Hlavaty.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. -- Ursula K. LeGuin.
One symptom of impending nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell.
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. -- Doris Lessing.
One symptom of impending nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell.
I have animal magnetism -- when I go outside, squirrels stick to my clothes.
Creativeness is finding patterns where none exist. -- Thomas M. Disch.
Is Calvin a stuffed boy when there are other tigers around?
The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct. -- Robert Anton Wilson.
What shakes the eye but the invisible? -- Theodore Roethke.
Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him. -- Kahil Gibran.
A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things that enclose it. -- Zelda Fitzgerald.
Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means. -- Kahil Gibran.
Least said is soonest disavowed. --Ambrose Bierce.
The most important invention in the history of the human race is the written contract. It makes it possible for individual parties to list all the different ways they distrust each other. -- Solomon Short.
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. -- Carl Sagan.
"When one is seeking," said Siddhartha, "it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the things he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose." -- Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse.
Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way. -- Joseph Campbell
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. -- Voltaire.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein.
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid. -- Jules Feiffer.
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. -- H.L. Mencken.
Reality is what doesn't go away when you stop believing in it. -- Philip K. Dick.
Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized. -- Arthur D. Hlavaty.
It is better to have an honorable foe than a dishonorable friend.
People think I sit here and push buttons and get things accomplished. Well, I spent today kissing behinds. -- President Harry S. Truman.
The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard. -- Kahil Gibran.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein.
Red meat isn't bad for you. Fuzzy blue-green meat is bad for you.
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. -- Jack Kerouac.
He's the kind who'll kiss your ass to your face and spit in your eye behind your back. -- Arthur D. Hlavaty.
Hierarchy: a system designed so that those who decide everything do nothing; those who do everything decide nothing.
I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me. -- Charles Lamb.
The Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. -- Flannery O'Connor.
We need the tonic of wildness... We can never have enough of nature. -- Henry David Thoreau
A tree is an aerial garden, a botanical migration from the sea, from those earliest plants, the seaweeds; it is a purchase on crumbled rock, on ground. The human, standing, is only a different upsweep and articulation of cells. How treelike we are, how human the tree. -- Gretel Ehrlich.
The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use of make of them; he has lived for a long time who has little lived. Whether you have lived enough depends not on the number of your years but on your will. -- Montaigne.
I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else. -- George Carlin.
No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed. -- Helen Keller.
The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage. -- Katherine Mansfield.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. -- Oscar Wilde.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of Nature. And it is because in the last analysis we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve. -- Max Planck.
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. -- Virginia Woolf.
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except learning how to grow in rows.
Cat's Motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it.
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. -- Rita Rudner.
He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from the next freeway exit.
Your profession is not what brings home the weekly paycheck. Your profession is what you are put here on earth to do. To do with such passion and intensity that it becomes a spiritual calling. -- Vincent Van Gogh.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children. -- Kahil Gibran.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well -- if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf.
The secret of life is in the shadows and not in the open sun; to see anything at all, you must look deeply into the shadow of a living thing. -- Ute saying
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. -- William Hazlitt.
Work like you don't need money, Love like you've never been hurt, And dance like no one's watching.
It's not real work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James M. Barrie.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and you will make of their circumstances the litter you have made of your own. -- Charles Fort.
Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before. -- Mae West.
I can't actually see myself putting makeup on my face at the age of sixty. But I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand. -- Glenda Jackson.
Poetry often enters through the window of irreverence. -- M.C. Richards.
We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. -- Thomas Paine.
Who first invented Work -- and tied the free/ And holy-day rejoicing spirit down/ To the ever-haunting importunity/ Of business, in the green fields and the town/ To plough -- loom -- anvil -- spade -- and, oh, most sad,/ To this dry drudgery of the desk's dead wood? -- Charles Lamb.
Religion that doesn't come from inside is like taking a shower with a raincoat... Defeats the purpose.-- Richard Dengrove
To make judgments about great and high things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own. -- Montaigne.
Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded, because it is so easy not to battle at all, to just accept and call that acceptance inevitable. -- Audre Lorde.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed. -- Voltaire.
Thank you for not being perky.
A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring. --Ambrose Bierce.
Honesty is the best policy - there's less competition.
To voice something you're feeling and put observations into words with another person who is totally present is a creative act embodying soul and love. -- Jean Shinoda Bolen.
Co-dependence is taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel. -- Linda Ellerbee.
Under Republicans, man exploits man. Under Democrats, it's just the opposite.
Politicians and diapers need to be changed. Often for the same reasons.
Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods. -- George Carlin.
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and have it found out by accident. -- Montaigne.
God is too big to fit in one religion.
Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer. -- Reinhold Niebuhr.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde.
Let's go to the food court and try some food. -- Arthur D. Hlavaty.
Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path. -- Montaigne.
This above all: to thine own self be true. -- William Shakespeare
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. -- Annie Dodge Wauneka.
No one has the answer; only you know the way home. -- Elizabeth Lesser.
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. -- H.L. Mencken.
Spirituality is rooted in desire. We long for something we can neither name nor describe, but which is no less real because of our inability to capture it with words. -- Mary Jo Weaver.
Things are moe like they are now than they ever were. -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Ack, Ptui!!! -- Bill the Cat.

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