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Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. ~Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You



I will not carry a gun.... I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even hari-kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun! ~Hawkeye, "Officer of the Day," original airdate 24 September 1974, written by Laurence Marks, directed by Hy Averback



Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right. ~H.H. "Breaker" Morant



To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. ~Phyllis Theroux



Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. ~Hugh Miller, Snow on the Wind



One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. ~Bertrand Russell



Cleanliness is next to impossible. ~Author Unknown



"Every minute dies a man, Every minute one is born;" I need hardly point out to you that this calculation would tend to keep the sum total of the world's population in a state of perpetual equipoise, whereas it is a well-known fact that the said sum total is constantly on the increase. I would therefore take the liberty of suggesting that in the next edition of your excellent poem the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be corrected as follows: "Every moment dies a man, And one and a sixteenth is born." I may add that the exact figures are 1.067, but something must, of course, be conceded to the laws of metre. ~Charles Babbage, letter to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, about a couplet in his "The Vision of Sin"



What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ~Karl Menninger



Age is a slowing down of everything except fear. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb



For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. ~James 3:7-8



Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. ~Edwin Way Teale



This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. ~Will Rogers



By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ~Rabindrath Tagore



Coffee: The first peripheral! ~Author Unknown



It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841



Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan. ~Quentin Crisp, "The Art of Celibacy"



I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. ~George Washington Carver



In my friend, I find a second self. ~Isabel Norton