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It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards. ~Mike Royko

In Rome you long for the country; in the country - oh inconstant! - you praise the distant city to the stars. ~Horace, Satires In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. ~Carl Sagan, 1987

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. ~Martin Luther

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. ~D.H. Lawrence

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones. ~Harry Truman

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied. ~Niccolo Machiavelli

Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. ~William Shakespeare

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. ~Russell Green

Poker, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown. ~Ambrose Bierce

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop

Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. ~Will Rogers

Fans are the only ones who really care. There are no free-agent fans. ~Dick Young

A three-year-old gave this reaction to her Christmas dinner: "I don't like the turkey, but I like the bread he ate." ~Author Unknown

In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder. ~Author Unknown

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person. ~Alec Waugh

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11, spoken by the character Atticus