While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ~Dorothea Lange
The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables
There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist. ~Robert Benchley
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness. ~W.E.B. DuBois
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. ~Ghose Aurobindo
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but nothing in this world is certain but death and taxes. ~Benjamin Franklin
Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government." ~Lenny Bruce
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. ~Charles Caleb Colton
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. ~John Lahr
To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Does "anal-retentive" have a hyphen? ~Alison Bechdel, 1990 Dykes to Watch Out For calendar (Thanks, Chelsea)
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. ~Marshall Lumsden
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. ~Mae West
He should, as he list, be able to prove the moon made of grene cheese. ~Sir Thomas More
Life is one long process of getting tired. ~Samuel Butler
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. ~Nicholas Chamfort
Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. ~Author Unknown
Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals. ~G.K. Chesterton
The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. ~George Jean Nathan
Hatred is one long wait. ~Rene Maran
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. ~Horace
Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work. ~William H. Masters
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