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A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. ~P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs



If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints. ~Allen Nevins



Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. ~Fyodor Dostoevski



Retire from work, but not from life. ~M.K. Soni



Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. ~Earl Wilson



Motto: a short expression of a guiding principle or ideal of behavior; a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use. Example: "Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time." ~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society



It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. ~Rebecca West



Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter. ~Terri Guillemets



Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb



Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. ~Charles Krauthammer



If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. ~Henry Ford



Four little Persians, but only one looked in my direction. I extended a tentative finger and two soft paws clung to it. There was a contented sound of purring, I suspect on both our parts. ~George Freedley



There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~Marshall McLuhan, 1964



Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. ~Dandemis



A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor ~Victor Hugo



People that put themselves above others will fall longer and harder. ~Gina Lindley



The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. ~Potter Stewart



I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent. ~Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers, 1977