Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. ~Peg Bracken
Words can make a deeper scar than silence can heal. ~Author Unknown
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ~George Santayana
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. ~Mark Twain I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. ~Mark Twain
My childhood smells like a box of Crayola crayons. ~Jessi Lane Adams
Seventy-five percent of our planet is water - can you swim? ~Author Unknown

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ~Oscar Wilde

Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. ~Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764
You might be a nurse if you firmly believe that "too stupid to live" should be a diagnosis. ~Author Unknown
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. ~Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversation: Diogenes and Plato
Strange...a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied seventy times seven and invented Hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him! ~Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

God respects me when I work; but God loves me when I sing. ~Rabindranath Tagore
Any man can lose his hat in a fairy-wind. ~Irish Saying

As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate. ~Sandra Boynton

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. ~Thomas Jefferson
Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. ~Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, 1969
Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. ~John Adams
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. ~Arnold H. Glasow
Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever. ~Author Unknown
Every man expects some miracle - either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events. ~Paul Valery
Age is a high price to pay for maturity. ~Tom Stoppard
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. ~Odilon Redon
You know what they say: You can't teach a gay dog straight tricks. ~Chef, "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride," original airdate 3 September 1997, written by Trey Parker & Matt Stone
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