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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. ~Gail Sheehy

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ~Paul Erdos

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ~Brooks Atkinson, once Around the Sun, 1951

Art is… a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what’s happening. ~Aaron Howard

The chief characteristics of the liberal attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith. ~Chester Bowles, New Republic, 22 July 1946

Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature. ~Martin H. Fischer

Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Tears are God�s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. ~Rita Schiano, Sweet Bitter love, 1997, published by The Reed Edwards Company

To ride a horse is to ride the sky. ~Author Unknown

There are two ways of spreading light – to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat. ~Oscar Wilde

The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them. ~Richard Bach, Running from Safety

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000. ~Leonard L. Levinson

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. ~Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Scelto

Nothing risque, nothing gained. ~Alexander Woollcott

Susan: “Sally, does it ever occur to you that age brings wisdom and greater confidence?”

We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse. ~Author Unknown

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. if you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. ~Charlie Parker

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. ~Thomas Jefferson