Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Alexander Pope

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Alexander Pope

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
Clarence Darrow

One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.
Hillary Clinton

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
Thomas Sowell

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
William J. Clinton

My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.
William J. Clinton

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells

I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.
Casey Stengel

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
Adam Smith

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.
Robert Benchley

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.
Robert Benchley

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
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