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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

- Shirley MacLaine

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

- Horace

One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

- George Santayana

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

- Jules Feiffer

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

- Gerald R. Ford

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

- Ambrose Bierce

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.

- Fats Domino

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

- Dante Alighieri

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

- David Letterman