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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. ~Miguel De Unamuno



The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. ~T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919



One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. ~Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi to Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf, 1882



Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept. ~Saint Francis de Sales



I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952



By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog. ~Barbara Holland



When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wisest man. "O, great sage," he says, "tell me the meaning of life." The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, "Do you have any other questions, my son?" Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, "You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?" ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. ~George Eliot



He is a true fugitive who flies from reason. ~Marcus Aurelius



If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check. ~Dan Quayle, attributed



Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income. ~Alfred E. Neuman



The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time. ~Author Unknown



Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb



Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923



Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. ~Felix Cohen



Hugs are the universal medicine. ~Author Unknown