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- To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.
- Greg Garcia, Raising Hope, Dead Tooth, 09-28-10
- For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
- Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, sc. 1
- My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXLVII
- Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act IV, sc. 1
- Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me ... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc. 5
- Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Notebook, 1935
- The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech before the Colorado Live Stock Association, Denver, Colorado, August 19, 1910
- Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds.
- Seth Hoffman, House M.D., 2010
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