The Quotes of the day...for lack of a better posting...

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.
  - Honore de Balzac

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
  - Brendan Behan

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
  - Paul Valery

And something for the Holidays!