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  1. Life is a sexually transmitted disease - and the mortality rate is 100 percent. - R.D.Laing 5:31 PM May 11th via web
  2. Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to Hell. - Ben Jonson The devil's boots don't creak.- Scottish Proverb 3:54 PM May 6th via web
  3. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. - Aldous Huxley (1929) 5:28 PM May 3rd via web
  4. Never have children, only grandchildren. - Gore Vidal 3:03 PM Apr 30th via web
  5. The best way to keep children home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere - and let the air out of the tires. - Dorothy Parker 3:01 PM Apr 30th via web
  6. The problem with death is there may be no afterlife. Also that if there is an afterlife no one will know where it's being held.- Woody Allen 3:57 PM Apr 29th via web
  7. @ptarkkonen Under every silver lining there is a great big, dark cloud. - @aphorisms 4:20 PM Apr 28th via web in reply to ptarkkonen
  8. The secret to longevity is to keep breathing. - Sophie Tucker / It takes a long time to grow young. - Pablo Picasso 4:11 PM Apr 28th via web
  9. A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. - Lyndon B. Johnson (1965) 4:47 PM Apr 27th via web
  10. Many get the name for being witty, only to lose the credit of being sensible. - Gracian 3:39 PM Apr 25th via web
  11. Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another. People are friends in spots. - George Santayana (1952) 5:03 PM Apr 23rd via web
  12. A friend in need is a friend to keep away from. - Ben. Franklin A friend that ain't in need is a friend indeed. - Kin Hubbard 3:37 PM Apr 21st via web
  13. An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. - Dylan Thomas 12:18 PM Apr 19th via web
  14. States have no rights - only people have rights. States have responsibilities. - Governor George Romney (1964) 5:29 PM Apr 18th via web
  15. Don't believe everything you think. - ( seen on a bumper sticker) 8:34 PM Apr 16th via web
  16. The path of spirituality is a knife-edge between abysses. - Aldous Huxley 3:36 PM Apr 15th via web
  17. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.-Douglas Adams(Hitch Hiker's Guide) 3:23 PM Mar 12th via web
  18. "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." - Steve Jobs 2005 3:12 PM Mar 9th via web
  19. I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. - Charles Lindbergh 4:58 PM Feb 12th via web
  20. People, like boats, toot the loudest when they are in a fog. - (anonymous) 3:28 PM Feb 10th via web
  • Name George Lundquist
  • Location Los Gatos, CA
  • Bio Daily quotes from literature or history. Aphorism: A terse formulation of a truth or sentiment. Tweets are aphorisms.
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