"Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing."

-- Faina Ranevskaya

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“Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin.”
“When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don't worry BE HAPPY!:)”
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
“Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.”
“If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; but if you make but a little of Christ, Christ will make but a little of you.”
“The forest is a quiet place if only the best birds sing.”
“And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.”
“I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.”

Source : "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 6, (pp. 120-121), 1969.

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