#quotestr I've touch'd the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. I shall fall, Like a bright exhalation in the evening And no man see me more. -- Shakespeare

#quotestr In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, "one when he was a boy and one when he was a man." -- Mark Twain

#quotestr You will attract cultured and artistic people to your home.

#quotestr Q: How do you keep a moron in suspense?

#quotestr When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all. -- Roger Zelazny, "Doorways in the Sand"

#quotestr I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me that I may sponge away the writing on this stone! -- Charles Dickens

#quotestr You love your home and want it to be beautiful.

#quotestr When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all. -- Roger Zelazny, "Doorways in the Sand"

#quotestr You will pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please disregard this message.

#quotestr You are farsighted, a good planner, an ardent lover, and a faithful friend.

#quotestr Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

#quotestr When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

#quotestr A morgue is a morgue is a morgue. They can paint the walls with aggressively cheerful primary colors and splashy bold graphics, but it's still a holding place for the dead until they can be parted out to organ banks. Not that I would have cared normally but my viewpoint was skewed. The relentless pleasance of the room I sat in seemed only grotesque. -- Pat Cadigan, "Mindplayers"

#quotestr No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone. -- Shirley Jackson, "The Haunting of Hill House"

#quotestr You need more time; and you probably always will.

#quotestr Q: Who cuts the grass on Walton's Mountain? A: Lawn Boy.

#quotestr Is that really YOU that is reading this?

#quotestr You have the power to influence all with whom you come in contact.

#quotestr There is a 20% chance of tomorrow.