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Posted on April 21, 2022

“Do not panic.”—Douglas Adams (on the cover of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), British author, 1952-2001

Posted on April 20, 2022April 19, 2022

“There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh!”—Catullus, Latin poet, c.84-c.54 BC

Posted on April 7, 2022

“You can never be too rich or too thin.”—Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Socialite; 1896-1986

Posted on April 1, 2022

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”—Douglas Adams, English author, 1952-2001

Posted on March 28, 2022

“Let’s face it, when an attractive but aloof man comes along, there are some of us who offer to shine his shoes with our underpants.”—Lynda Barry, American cartoonist, 1956-

Posted on February 27, 2022February 27, 2022

“It ain’t over till it’s over.”—Lawrence Peter (“Yogi”) Berra, American baseball catcher, 1925-2015

Posted on February 25, 2022February 25, 2022

“Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.”—Brooks Hays, politician from Arkansas, 1898-1981

Posted on February 10, 2022

“If I die, I forgive you. If I recover, we will see.”—Spanish proverb

Posted on February 7, 2022

“I was looking down at all that machinery and equipment and rockets and things under me, and I thought, ‘Just think—all that power was assembled by the lowest bidder.'”—Wally Schirra, American astronaut, 1923-2007

Posted on February 2, 2022February 2, 2022

“One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.”—J.B. Priestley, English novelist, 1894-1984

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