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Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. ~Colman McCarthy


America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~Abraham Lincoln


That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. ~John Burroughs, Journal


There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence." ~O. Hallesby


The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses. ~Henry Van Dyke


I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990. ~Dave Barry


The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841


Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. ~Mary Hirsch


Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. ~Carl Zwanzig


Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. ~Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies


There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty. ~William Lecky


What we see depends mainly on what we look for. ~John Lubbock


Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? ~Maurice Maeterlinck


In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head. ~Terri Guillemets


Fire takes no holiday. ~Author Unknown


The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. ~J. Frank Dobie


Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing


Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966 Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966


Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. ~Oscar Wilde


He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin