We do choose how we shall live

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

We do choose how we shall live

No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain.

The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.

Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads.