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  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire ii, Line 165...
• Jimmy Stewart played the father on a southern plantation when a young man came to ask for his daughter's hand in marriage.
  The father asked, "Well, do you like her?" The young man responded " - I love her!...
• Once upon a time there was a beautiful young girl taking a stroll through the woods.
  All at once she saw an extremely ugly bull frog seated on a log and to her amazement the frog spoke to her....
• The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire i, Line 51...
• Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
  Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramid...
• Breaks my heart. A kid that young goin' bad. -- The Blues Brothe
• A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.
  But a mother's love endures through all. -- Washington Irving...
• When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone.
  And I have found it wise never to recommend a restaurant either....
• When someone makes a move We'll send them all we've got, Of which we don't approve, John Wayne and Randolph Scott, Who is it that always intervenes?
  Remember those exciting fighting scenes? U.N. and O....