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If a man examine carefully his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. ~Emerson, Journals, 1827


I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead. ~Woody Allen


We never repent of having eaten too little. ~Thomas Jefferson, 1825


How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? ~Woody Allen, "Selections from the Allen Notebooks," Without Feathers, 1975


It's not plagiarism - I'm recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do. ~Uniek Swain


I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. ~Mark Twain


The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. ~Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Mark Twain


Needlepoint: the delicious art of filling in holes with wool. ~Carole Berman and Jennifer Lazarus


The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation. ~Martin H. Fischer


Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother. ~Rose Kennedy


He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination. ~Andrew Lang


No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy. ~Knights of Pythagoras


This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms. ~Author Unknown


We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. ~Tad Williams


An unattempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. ~Michel de Montaigne


The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education. ~Joel Hildebrand


Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown


An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. ~Stephen Fry


My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass. ~Terri Guillemets