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The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it. ~Charles DeLint



Alas, the gates of life never swing open except upon death, never open except upon the palaces and gardens of death. And the universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Blood everywhere and, where there is most life, horrible tormentors who dig your flesh, saw your bones, and retract your skin with sinister, joyful faces. ~"The Garden," Chapter 9



In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls. ~Lenny Bruce



Curling rocks! ~Saying of the sport



Man cannot live on chocolate alone, but woman sure can. ~Author Unknown



Love your enemies. It makes them so damned mad. ~P.D. East



Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. ~Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, 1889



Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. ~John Fowles



Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses. ~Franklin P. Jones



A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our friends. ~Kin Hubbard



Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern



Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow. ~John Mariucci



The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer. ~Paula Poundstone



Life: It is about the gift not the package it comes in. ~Dennis P. Costea, Jr.



If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? ~Aleksander Solzhenitsyn



Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. ~John Clapham, A Concise Economic History of Britain, 1957



Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. ~Author Unknown



People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. ~George Bernard Shaw



You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy. ~Melissa Etheridge, "Silent Legacy," Yes I Am, 1993



A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. ~Michelangelo