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~ By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth ~

~ Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything. ~

Paris Hilton

~ HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong ~

Robert Green Ingersoll

~ If (the) empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be overthrown with it, what advantages will be gained? The doctrine of human equality is founded entire ~

John Adams

~ Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is ~

Rebecca West

~ Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. ~

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

~ Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. ~

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

~ Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets. ~

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

~ Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might have lain forever undiscovered. ~

Thomas Paine

~ It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage. ~

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

~ He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it. ~

Seneca

~ All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden ~

Reginald Farrer

~ Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. ~

William Cowper

~ It used to be thought that our love of plants was an impractical but pure passion. But now, in the age of environmental crisis, we're discovering that gardening is essential to human life. ~

Jacqueline Heriteau

~ One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. ~

Dan Bennett

~ Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time ~

Bernard Mannes Baruch

~ Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age ~

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

~ The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving ~

Russell Greene

~ Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve ~

Sophia Loren

~ What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem ~

Saul Steinberg

~ One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully ~

Robert Benchley

~ The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage of weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting. ~

Hank Aaron

~ During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. ~

Mickey Mantle

~ A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage ~

Pete Rose

~ Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal in design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose: it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance-thrown hard and with precision ~

Roger Angell

~ Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language ~

Ludwig Wittgenstein

~ Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages. ~

Lord Byron

~ Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. ~

Albert Camus

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