
Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside. ~Rita Rudner

A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others. ~Norman Shidle

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

Divorce: The past tense of marriage. ~Author Unknown

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. ~Song of Solomon 8:6

It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues. ~Abraham Lincoln

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men, 1850

For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. ~Bill O'Reilly, about capitalism

Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb

To alcohol, the cause and solution to all of life's problems. ~Homer Simpson

If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is. ~Horace G. Hutchinson
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If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one. ~George Gobel

One cannot erect, on the basis of a motive that exists only for a very few, an obligation that shall apply to everyone. ~Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

To use five crayons. Maybe, not.

I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home.... I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby. ~Nancie J. Carmody

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. ~Adlai Stevenson

Men are better when riding, more just and more understanding, and more alert and more at ease and more under-taking, and better knowing of all countries and all passages; in short and long all good customs and manners cometh thereof, and the health of man and of his soul. ~Attributed to Edward Plantagenet

My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America. ~Val Saintsbury
I think you enjoy the game more if you don't know the rules. Anyway you're on the same wavelength as the referees. ~Jonathan Davies, 1995
Hugging has no unpleasant side effects and is all natural. There are no batteries to replace, it's inflation-proof and non-fattening with no monthly payments. It's non-taxable, non-polluting, and is, of course, fully refundable. ~Author Unknown
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ~E.M. Forster
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. ~Alexander Hamilton