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Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. ~Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762



There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart. ~Blaise Pascal



And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. ~Psalms 55:6



Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. ~Edward Abbey, "Walking"



Life: It is about the gift not the package it comes in. ~Dennis P. Costea, Jr.



Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own. A twelve is very different from a thirteen, for example. Twelve is upright, conscientious, intelligent, whereas thirteen is a loner, a shady character who won't think twice about breaking the law to get what he wants. Eleven is tough, an outdoorsman who likes tramping through woods and scaling mountains; ten is rather simpleminded, a bland figure who always does what he's told; nine is deep and mystical, a Buddha of contemplation.... ~Paul Auster, The Music of Chance



I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it. ~Thomas Jackson



If men were angels, no government would be necessary. ~James Madison



It's at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I don't know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind. I wish I believed, as J. B. Priestley did, that consciousness continues after disembodiment or death, not forever, but for a long while. Three score years and ten is such a stingy ration of time, when there is so much time around. Perhaps that's why some of us are insomniacs; night is so precious that it would be pusillanimous to sleep all through it! A "bad night" is not always a bad thing. ~Brian W. Aldiss



Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ~Henry Ward Beecher



When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949



Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease. ~Author Unknown



Beauty is skin deep. A tattoo goes all the way to the bone. ~Vince Hemingson



The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. ~John Berger



Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! ~Attributed to Sandra J. Dykes



Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms. ~Thomas Bailey Aldrich



The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. ~Benjamin Disraeli