"The long summer was over. For ages a tropical climate had prevailed over a great part of the earth, and animals whose home is now beneath the Equator roamed over the world from the far South to the very borders of the Arctics ... But their reign was over. A sudden intense winter, that was also to last for ages, fell upon our globe."

-- Louis Agassiz

#Summer Quotes #Home Quotes #Winter Quotes

“If you knew the meaning of life, would you necessarily like it?”
“If you don't make a decision then time will make it for you and time will always side against you!”
“Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.”
“So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks of dream wrapped in the silk stockings of oblivion.”
“Happiness is the best cosmetic.”
“Being #1 on MSN is like being Valedictorian of summer school.”
“We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.”
“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.”

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