Objects may appear larger

When in doubt,
ignore the shadow. 

 Seth Godin

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Just passin'

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. 

Margaret Atwood 

Captured for posterity?

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.  

Edward Gorey

Stress this

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

Clive Barker

Consider the alternative

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.   

Rita Mae Brown

Second law of fashion

Remember that always dressing in understated good taste is the same as playing dead.  

Susan Catherine

Imagine the possibilities

Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.

Anne Hollander

Carry on?

Give us this day our daily mask. 

Tom Stoppard 

Skip the stemware

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Lord Byron 

Despite their best efforts

It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

 John Waters

The good sisters?

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Margaret Atwood 

Appearances are deceiving?

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. 

Joe Ancis

Practice makes perfect?

Fail again. 
Fail better.  

Samuel Beckett

Checked out?

It's no use going to school if the library is not your final destination.

Ray Bradbury

First law of fashion?

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."

P.G. Wodehouse 

Tales told out of/in school?

History is fables agreed upon.

Voltaire

The mean reconsidered

Normal is the average of deviance.

Rita Mae Brown

Tease this

You're only as good as your last haircut.

Fran Lebowitz

Daily ritual?

Exercise. Kind of like flushing the demons from your body. Except without the holy water.  

Adam Mahar

Many are called, but few are bolted?

Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. 

Mary Doria Russell 

Non-random chance?

In a gathering of two or more people, when a lighted cigarette is placed in an ashtray, the smoke will waft into the face of the non-smoker. 

Anon.

Beyond suds?

It's easy to be clean on the outside. All you need is soap and water and a scrubbing brush. It's harder to be clean on the inside.

 Girl Scout Handbook

Well considered

It is a truly wise man who does not play leap frog with a unicorn.

Anon. 

True north strong and free

Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow.

Margaret Atwood

Point well taken?

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead
 

I have a theory...

... that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Hunter S. Thompson 

Independence Day blow out?

You cannot have too large a party.

Jane Austen

July Fourth reconsidered

If we were still English we'd be drinking more and driving on the wrong side of the road -- pretty much what people do on the Fourth of July anyway. 

Lorrie Moore

Look again

Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone. 

Anne Sexton

Fan this

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.

Shelley Winters

In God We Trust?

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

Otto von Bismarck