Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce." These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak. ~James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics, 1848
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. ~Stephen Roberts
In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality. ~Kristian Kan, Rich By 25
Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. ~Jon Anderson, "Epidermal Dalis," Chicago Tribune, 6 October 1994
I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. ~Madonna Ciccone
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. ~John Gunther
Seeking is not always the way to find. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ~Theodore Roosevelt
Time sure flies when you skip an hour. ~Jessi Lane Adams
A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. ~Wendy Kaminer
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. ~Marshall McLuhan, introduction to Wilson Bryan Key, Subliminal Seduction: Ad Media's Manipulation of a Not So Innocent America, 1974
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than raiment? ~Matthew 6:25
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ~Ernest Gaines
George W. Bush will protect your unborn fetus, then send your grown child to die in war. ~Rick Claro
If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things. ~Dee Snider
Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie. ~Max Beerbohm, "Hosts and Guests," 1918
Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated. ~Author Unknown
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty. ~Cecil Baxter
The message for business people contemplating their place in cyberspace is simple and direct: get linked or get lost. ~Vic Sussman and Kenan Pollack
The past is a good place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. ~Author Unknown
As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host. ~Charles V. Chapin
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