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People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, 1841



Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. ~Ambrose Bierce



All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says. ~Walter B. Wriston



Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. ~Washington Irving



You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. ~Arlo Guthrie



Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. ~Vladimir Nabokov, 1951



If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~Noam Chomsky



Horses lend us the wings we lack. ~Author Unknown



Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~Author Unknown



It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. ~George Bernard Shaw



Morality is a private and costly luxury. ~Henry B. Adams, The Education of Henry Adams



Hug a firefighter and feel warm all over. ~Author Unknown



You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live. ~William Shakespeare



I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. ~Jean Cocteau



Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. ~Benjamin Franklin



Contextomy: quoting out of context. This is a type of false attribution in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning. The issue is not the removal of a quote from its original context (as all quotes are) per se but the quoter's decision to exclude from the excerpt certain nearby phrases or sentences that serve to clarify the intention. Editor's note: I have not intentionally quoted out of context on this site; however, due to the use of visitor submissions, some of the quotes might be used out of context. If you come across this type of error, please let me know and I'll correct the problem as soon as I can. Thank you!



Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. ~John 7:24



Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance. ~John F. Schumaker, Corruption of Reality, Unified Theory of Religion, Hypnosis and Psychotherapy



All God's angels come to us disguised. ~James Russell Lowell