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Please storyteller, pull a tale from your pocket,
Spin me a story from your coat-tails so bare,
For my heart has turned cold, and my dreams are too old,
And I need to know the magic's still there
-- Heather Alexander (Storyteller)
"The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands."
-- Alexander Penney
"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."
-- Peter Alexander Ustinov
"Man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road."
-- Alexander Smith
Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
-- Alexander Woollcott
"Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious."
-- William Feather
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
-- Willa Cather
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
-- Mark Twain
'Impossible' tends to be an opinion rather than a fact.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
Erotic is when you use a feather. Kinky is when you use the whole chicken.
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.
-- John Keats
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
-- Robert Frost
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
-- Emo Philips
"The biggest disease today isn't leprosy or tuberculosis, but the feeling of being unwanted."
-- Mother Theresa
Accountant - someone who can put two and two together and make a living from it.
Cat: Ethereal music wreathed in mystery.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
-- Abba Eban
Beware by whom you are called sane.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson
...as opposed to Xena's paradox, which is, "How exactly can she fight in that leather outfit, and leave all of that flesh exposed, and survive?"
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
-- Woody Allen (Without Feathers, 1976)
"Make lots of money", "enjoy the work", "operate within the law": choose 2
-- Brian Anderson
Descartes described how his father taught him how to swim by throwing him into the Seine: "I sink, therefore I swam."
It wasn't a dark and stormy night. It should have been, but that's the weather for you.
-- Terry Pratchett (Good Omens)
Thinking is not a panacea, but to paraphrase Gandhi, maybe it would be a good idea to try some.
-- Jess Anderson