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If you feel that you are a miserly stingy parsimonious guy,
at least let not that impression formed in the minds of others. — Toba Beta

Like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium. — Dean Koontz

Positive lessons learned... Blessings recognized... Humor found... No regrets. — Tanya Masse

Venus, it turns out, is broiling hot. There are no swamps, no oil fields, no seltzer oceans. With insufficient data, it is easy to go wrong. — Carl Sagan

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea. — Henry David Thoreau

If you want to know how old a woman is ... ask her sister-in-law. — E.W. Howe

But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in. — George W. Bush

Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it. — Charles M. Blow

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself. — Berthold Auerbach

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country ... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods. — Terry Gilliam

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined. — E. O. Wilson

We will declare frankly that nothing is clear in this world. Only fools and charlatans know and understand everything. - ANTON CHEKHOV — Stacy Schiff

Just as it had done with the hills, the mountains, and the swamps, Ravnica had annexed and absorbed the world's lakes without so much as a hiccup. — Ari Marmell

I love monsters. — China Mieville

And I love you, angry girl. I really do. — Callie Hart

You hurt her and I'll skin you alive and feed your carcass to the wild boars in the swamps. You copy? — Faith Hunter

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire. — Joy Kogawa

There's probably about 150 charters in the world. We're the biggest international club there is. — Chuck Zito

I'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in. — Marilyn Hacker

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it. — Henry David Thoreau

There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death — Bret Harte

Stride with a proud disdain through the swamp of human inadmissibility. — Joachim Peiper

If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp. — Richard Bach

If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs. — Ronnie Van Zant

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida. — Karen Russell

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too. — Joyce Cary

On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps ... — P.G. Wodehouse

Hunger attacks me," said Zarathustra, "like a robber. Among forests and swamps my hunger attacks me, and late in the night. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet. — Avey Tare

A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp. — Roy Blount Jr.

Environmentalists changed the word jungle to rain forest, because no one would give them money to save a jungle. Same with swamps and wetlands. — George Carlin

Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa. — Bobby Heenan

The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there. — Peter Cook

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly. — Henry David Thoreau

Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps. — Henry David Thoreau

God has decided, for his own good reasons, that people are not transformed outside of community. — John Ortberg