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Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.

—P. J. O'Rourke

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

—Floyd Dell

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

—W. Somerset Maugham

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

—George Santayana

Ever heard Victoria's REAL secret? Too much support hurts.

—R. Stevens

Don't tell people to act their age. It's like telling a baby to move out, and if they're older you're telling them to "die in a hole.

—Devin J. Monroe

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

—Horace Walpole

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

—Henry Drummond

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

—Helen Keller

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

—Matthew Arnold

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

—Saint Augustine

You cannot step into the same river twice.

—Heraclitus

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

—Gian Carlo Menotti

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

—Elizabeth Bowen

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

—Walt Disney