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To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a "home" might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. ~Emily Post



Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. ~Baba Ram Dass



Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole in one. ~Martha Beckman



Music is the poetry of the air. ~Richter



A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ~Leonard Bernstein, The New York Times, 30 October 1988



Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him. ~Giuseppe Mazzini



Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please. ~David Dudley Field



Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. ~Matthew Arnold, "Self-Dependence," Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems, 1852



You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



There is no substitute for mother's milk. ~Martin H. Fischer



I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. ~Eugene V. Debs



Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made. ~John Terraine



This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ~George Bernard Shaw



Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence. ~Robert Fripp



Pleasure is the bait of sin. ~Plato



I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon. ~Willa Sibert Cather



God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality. ~Jacques Rigaut, Pensees



It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. ~Groucho Marx



God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. ~Author Unknown God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. ~Author Unknown



Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. ~Thomas C. Haliburton