The winner wants to talk about the last hand but the loser says “shut up and deal.”

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. -Abraham Lincoln-

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. -Ronald Reagan-

If you learn to laugh at yourself you won’t have time to do anything else.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology. -Ronald Reagan-

I don’t believe in blanket theological statements. -Rebecca Nagella-

There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky.

Self help books to cope with mid-life snit: a veritable tower of psychobabble. It’s great to live in an age where the emotionally discombobulated can so expertly treat themselves! -Opus, “Bloom County”-

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

The true test of a civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out. -Ralph Waldo Emerson-