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To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a "home" might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. ~Emily Post



Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. ~Mark Twain



The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ~Irving Berlin



Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. ~John Frederick Boyes



As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy



The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. ~John Allen Paulos



I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. ~Joe E. Lewis



I'd like mornings better if they started later. ~Author Unknown



Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration. ~Dave Barry



What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. ~John Bunyan



Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too. ~Author Unknown



Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him. ~Napoleon Bonaparte



Republicans are against abortion until their daughters need one, Democrats are for abortion until their daughter wants one. ~Grace McGarvie



In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it. ~John Updike, A Month of Sundays, 1975



The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. ~Kin Hubbard



Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. ~Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines, 1960



What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. ~Havelock Ellis



Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. ~Oscar Wilde



Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ~Honore de Balzac



Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions. ~Joseph Chatfield