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Charles Rosin


There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

William James


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Richard Jeni


It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

James Branch Cabell


There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

E. M. Cioran


Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

Robert Louis Stephenson


We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary", ch. 12


...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.

Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897


The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Kahlil Gibran


Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Kahlil Gibran


It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.

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