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Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. ~James Garfield



Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. ~Woodrow Wilson



Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ~Dion Boucicault



Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart. ~Erma Bombeck



"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard



Princess Edane... heard a voice singing on a May Eve like this, and followed half awake and half asleep, until she came into the Land of Faery, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. ~William Butler Yeats, "The Land of Heart's Desire," 1894



The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness. ~Uniek Swain



Anonymous Hick Redneck Founding Father: "Think of it: an entire nation founded on saying one thing and doing another."



The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ~George Elliot



It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wishe for medicines. ~Thomas More, Utopia sic



Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky



Only that day dawns to which we are awake. ~Henry David Thoreau



Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett



The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. ~Author Unknown



Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. ~Douglas Malloch



If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin



A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them." ~Charles Edward Montague, Dramatic Values



The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul. ~Walter Raleigh