Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Vacuums don't clean houses. People clean houses. ~Everybody Loves Raymond, "Humm Vac," written by Lew Schneider, original airdate 19 March 2001, spoken by the character Marie Barone
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. ~Miguel de Cervantes
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. ~Fred Allen
Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. ~Bertrand Russell
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. ~Carl Sandburg, "Arithmetic"
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. ~G.C. Lichtenberg
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ~Sam Keen
There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. ~Victor Hugo
The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time. ~David Shoup
The darkest hour has only sixty minutes. ~Morris Mandel
My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. ~Edith Wharton
Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ~Benjamin Spock, Baby and Child Care, 1977
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. ~Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, 1897
One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour. ~M.M. Musselman
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy - make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls. ~John Kerry
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep
My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat. ~Leo Tolstoy
We're all hookers. What matters is dignity. ~Mike Farren
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