Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too. ~Anton Chekhov, Ivanov
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ~Alexander Graham Bell
Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised. ~Edward Dahlberg, The Sorrows of Priapus, 1957
Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver. ~Author Unknown
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. ~Aristotle
I like her because she smiles at me and means it. ~Anonymous
The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. ~e.e. cummings
A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right. Author Unknown
Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish. ~Herbert Hoover
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. ~Winston Churchill
I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. ~Comte de Mirabeau
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. ~Calvin Trillin
...a "land of the free" that struggles under the incredible burden of limitless taxes and laws; the home of the "brave" who stay silent to keep their jobs and avoid scrutiny by the IRS or the police. ~Fred Woodworth, The Match!, No. 74
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. ~I Timothy 6:10
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be! ~J.K. Rowling, "The Parting of the Ways," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore
Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram. ~Joseph Farrell
A dog is not "almost human" and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such. ~John Holmes
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. ~William James
The sea hath no king but God alone. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The White Ship The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. ~Annie Dillard
For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time. ~Isabel Allende
There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death. ~Kenneth Patchen
We love men. We just don't want to see them naked. ~Two Nice Girls
Holden: "You know that song, 'If a body catch a body comin' through the rye'?..."
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