Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. ~Daniel Boone
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow
Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus? ~Martin H. Fischer
Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies. ~Mahatma Gandhi
There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear. ~Frank Tyger
A faith like Lincoln's would transform the world! ~James Oppenheim
Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together. ~Sean O'Casey
According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else... ~J.K. Rowling, "The Second War Begins," Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought - two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: Fate
I've decided that perhaps I'm bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge. ~Paula Poundstone
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. ~Laurence J. Peter
Nature does not deceive us; it is we who deceive ourselves. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution. ~Stephen Sondheim
I love my father as the stars - he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart. ~Terri Guillemets
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. ~Anne Frank
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. ~Maureen Murphy
It takes a long time to become young. ~Pablo Picasso
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. ~Douglas Malloch
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~Baha'u'llah It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~Baha'u'llah
Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
A lie is an excuse guarded. ~Jonathan Swift
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. ~Abraham Lincoln
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. ~Rabindranath Tagore
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