Be strong enough to say this to yourself -Sins were mine, and so shall I have to pay for it

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.

Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.

As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble.

The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.

Travel is an exercise partly in broadening yourself and partly in defining your own limits.

There are friends and faces that may be forgotten, but there are horses that never will be.

There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

The Cat on your hearthstone to this day presages, By solemnly sneezing, the coming of rain!

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.

Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.

Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.

Sometimes Plan B can have the same desired outcome, but a different path for getting there.

The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.

I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way. - Breeze

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Ric Flair, as great was and a hard worker as he was, he just tends to get lost in the ring.

Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in.

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.

Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.

Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.

I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children.

I'm very much a people pleaser, and the first book had such a devoted and loving following.

In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

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