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Asking a seamstress to mend is like asking Michelangelo to paint your garage. ~Author Unknown



I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes.... Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world - I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. ~Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me, 1928



Every man is the architect of his own fortune. ~Sallust



Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~Malcolm S. Forbes



We're the country that has more food to eat than any other country in the world, and with more diets to keep us from eating it. ~Author Unknown



Hornover: what one wakes up with the morning after a night of getting too horny without release. ~Sommeil Liberosensa



Oxygen is overrated. ~Author Unknown



It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there? ~Dizzy Dean



God respects me when I work; but God loves me when I sing. ~Rabindranath Tagore



Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on! ~Nikolai V. Gogol, Dead Souls, 1842, translated from Russian (above is combination of translations by Bernard Guildert Guerney, Richard Peaver, and Larisa Voloklonsky)



I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit. ~Ida B. Wells



What I take from my nights, I add to my days. ~Leon de Rotrou, "Vencelas," translated



Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. ~Arthur Koestler



If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



We have focused on the miracle-thing and I think we often overlook the message of Hanukkah. To me, the core of the holiday is the cleaning of the temple.... The accomplishment was in restoring the temple to the purpose for which it was built. Now think of the temple as a symbol. Perhaps it represents my life. The world has tried to use me for its own (perhaps good, but none-the-less extrinsic) purposes. But now I can rededicate myself to my own original purpose. ~Ralph Levy, "Hanukkah - Another View"



You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. ~Robin Williams



I would rather be right than President. ~Henry Clay, speech, 1850



The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living. ~James Robertson