Man's Best Friend/ Samuel Butler/ Mabel Robinson/ Agnes Turnbull/ David Jordan
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912
From the dog’s point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog. ~Mabel Louise Robinson
Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really. ~Agnes Sligh Turnbull
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism! ~David Starr Jordan
Flowers/ Beverly Nichols/ Tennessee Williams
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To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. ~Beverly Nichols
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. ~Tennessee Williams
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. ~Heinrich Heine, The Hartz Journey
The Education of Children/ Michel de Montaigne/ Mark Twain
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. ~Michel de Montaigne
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~Robert Frost
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain
College Football/ Elbert Hubbard/ George Will/ Erma Bombeck/ Phyllis Diller
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College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. ~Elbert Hubbard
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ~George F. Wil
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. ~Erma Bombeck
The reason women don’t play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public. ~Phyllis Diller
Halloween/ Chris Rock/ Emily Dickinson
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Eat, drink and be scary. ~Author Unknown
At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below.
~Theodosia GarrisonOne need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
~Emily DickinsonCharlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn’t even the star of his own Halloween special. ~Chris Rock














