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• We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
  -- Marcel Prou...
• Those who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who feel that we know everything, especially when we discover that everything they know and everything we know does not match.
• Annex Canada now! We need the room, and who's going to stop us? -- A Tom Neff .signature
• Flanders: Welcome, neighbors. Since the police can't seem to get off their dufferoonies to do something about this burglarino
  I think it's time we started our own neighborhood watch....
• NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
  Oscar Wilde...
• It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground.
  But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree....
• Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
• Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile