Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations -- wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

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Oprah Winfrey

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

Herb Caen

The world rides through space on the back of a turtle. This is one of the great ancient world myths, found wherever men and turtles were gathered together; the four elephants were an Indo-European sophistication. The idea has been lying in the lumber rooms of legend for centuries. All I had to do was grab it and run away before the alarms went off.There are no maps. You can't map a sense of humour. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs.-Terry Pratchett sums up Discworld

Terry Pratchett

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Miguel de Cervantes

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

General Douglas MacArthur

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

The feet are the gateway to 10,000 illnesses.

Japanese Proverb

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Theodore Roosevelt

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.

Sydney J. Harris

Is this not the true romantic feeling not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Thomas Wolfe

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

Martha Reeves