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He who sings scares away his woes. ~Cervantes



We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ~George Bernard Shaw We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ~George Bernard Shaw We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. ~John Lancaster Spalding



Antimetabole: figure of emphasis in which the words in one phrase or clause are replicated, exactly or closely, in reverse grammatical order in the next phrase or clause. It is similar to chiasmus although chiasmus does not use repetition of the same words or phrases. Example: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." ~John F. Kennedy



No woman will ever be satisfied because no man will ever have a chocolate penis that shoots out money. ~Author Unknown



Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ~G.K. Chesterton



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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. ~Victor Hugo



Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science. ~Edmund Arthur Helps



Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. ~Lois Wyse



Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ~Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier)



Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless. ~Sherry Anderson (Thanks, Kathy)



What's the good of news if you haven't a sister to share it? ~Jenny DeVries



The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. ~Gore Vidal



Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. ~Clarence W. Hall



The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. ~Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green



When it comes time to die, make sure all you got to do is die. ~Attributed to Jim Elliot



If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky



And see, no longer blinded by our eyes. ~Rupert Brooke