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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb



First time I've picked weeds in almost a year. Definitely missed it. I love the smell of dirt and plant revealing their hidden nature. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues. ~Hugh Prather



I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it. ~Groucho Marx



Maybe part of loving is learning to let go. ~From the television show The Wonder Years



You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights. ~William Lloyd Garrison



The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. ~Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871



A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ~Paul Dudley White



If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. ~Dean Martin



One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. ~George Herbert



God was just showing off when he created you. ~From the movie Keeping the Faith



Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck



A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. ~Eric Hoffer



People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. ~Elizabeth Drew, The New Yorker, 16 February 1987



It's not women's fault that diets don't work. It's not perversity of lack of willpower. God did this - in Her great wisdom. ~Dr. Wayne Callaway



The name of Jesus is the one lever that lifts the world. ~Author Unknown



There is no education like adversity. ~Disraeli



The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. ~Peter Berger



My cousin is an agoraphobic homosexual, which makes it kind of hard for him to come out of the closet. ~Bill Kelly