 | He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has
everything. ~Arabian Proverb |
| Indecision breeds grief. ~Cicero |
| A person is never happy except at the price of some
ignorance. ~Anatole France |
| El amores fuego, pero con el rose cuece el puercho.
(Love is a furnace, but it will not cook the stew.) ~Spanish Proverb |
| The First Amendment is not intended only for what
somebody may think is the truth. It is intended for freedom of speech. ~Arlen
Specter |
| Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the
close of a winter day. ~Elizabeth Bowen |
| Our society stands alone in celebrating the killing of a
child as an affirmation of women's freedom and equality. ~Elizabeth Fox-Genovese |
| You looked at the world and your life and you said
"I cannot live my life by ticks and tocks;
I cannot live my life in a nine-to-five box." ~H. Brock |
| Where would we all be without each other?
And how can I get there? ~Crabby Road |
| Journalism allows its readers to witness
history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. ~John Hersey |
| If writers were good business men, they'd
have too much sense to be writers. ~Irwin S. Cobb |
| I just made up my mind that I wouldn't
allow it to conquer me. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
~Rose Kennedy |
| Before everything else, getting ready is
the secret to success. ~Henry Ford |
| Everyone gets a tear in their eye when
they see "Old Glory"... but ENOUGH about mooning--
salute the flag! ~Crabby Road |
| Learn to see in another's calamity the
ills which you should avoid. ~Publis Syrus |
| I don't fear death... when I start to
think about it, I order a massage and it goes away. ~Hedy Lamar |
| There's only so much you can sweep under
the carpet before somebody trips over the hump. ~Detective Ken Eaton, Topeka, Kansas |
| The greatest happiness of life is the
conviction that we are loved. ~Victor Hugs |
| Paperback thrillers are great... unless
you like believable plots, character development, good writing and an ending that makes
sense. ~Crabby Road |
| Talk is cheap because supply exceeds
demand. |
| Scratch a pessimist, and you find often a
defender of privilege. ~Lord Beveridge |
| Sometimes it can seem like when you
finally get a handle on life... it comes off in your hand. ~Ziggy |
| What is more enchanting than the voices
of young people when you can't hear what they say? ~Logan P. Smith |
| A censor is a man who knows more than he
thinks you ought to. ~Granville Hicks |
| Education consists mainly of what we have
unlearned. ~Mark Twain |
| It is a worthy thing to fight for one's
freedom. It is finer to fight for another man's. ~Mark Twain |
| Diplomacy is to do and say
The nastiest thing in the nicest way. ~Isaac Goldberg |
| Man is practiced in disguise, He cheats
the most discerning eyes. ~John Gay |
| The artist is a sort of impassioned
proofreader, blue-penciling the bad spelling of God. ~H.L. Mencken |
| Don't spend time beating on a wall,
hoping to transform it into a door. ~Dr. Laura Schlessinger |
| What the world really needs is more love
and less paperwork. ~Pearl Baily |
| No man has a right in America to treat
any other man tolerantly, for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. ~Wendell
Wilkee |
| Late joys are best; they stand between
forgotten longing and coming peace. ~Ebner Eschenback |
| If Gore did invent the internet, he was
underrated by those who always thought of him more the inventor of, say, the pocket
protector. ~Mark Russell |
| The force that rules the world is conduct
whether it be moral or immoral. ~Nicholas Murray Butler, American Educator,
1862-1947 |
| A word of encouragement during a failure
is worth more than a whole book of praise after a success. ~Stephen Woody |
| Thousands of years ago, cats were
worshipped as gods, and cats have never forgotten it. |
| Tip the world over on its side and
everything loose will land in Los Angeles. ~Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.
~Kahlil Gibran |
| Sentiments are for the most part
traditional; we feel them because they were felt by by those who preceded us.
~William Hazlitt |
| There was never a great genius without a
tincture of madness. ~Aristotle |
| Free speech is to a great people what
winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the elements of disease, and
bring new elements of health. Where free speech is stopped, miasma is bred, and
death comes fast. ~Henry Ward Beecher |
| My own business always bores me; I prefer
other people's. ~Oscar Wilde |
| It is good to have heroes who don't let
you down. ~George W. Bush, on drivers at the NASA Winston Cup Primestar 500 |
| People use to live lives of quiet
desperation-- now they go on talk shows. ~Bob Thaves |
| Change is not merely necessary to life.
It is life. ~Alvin Toffler |
| ...keep in mind that if you cast a play
in hell, you're not going to get angels for actors. ~Cal Rerucha |
| Time makes more converts than reason.
~Thomas Paine |
| The greatest test of courage on earth is
to bear defeat without losing heart. ~Robert Greene Ingersoll |
| Observe yourself as your greatest enemy
would do, so shall you be your greatest friend. ~Jeremy Taylor |
| Age in a virtuous person, of either sex,
carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
~Sir Richard Steele |
| Publicity is like poison. It
doesn't hurt unless you swallow it. ~Joe Paterns |
| "Reasonable men behave much the same
the world over-- be they corporate directors or tribal natives," writes a client.
Quite so. Observed Mark Twain on one missionary's fate among African
cannibals: "They listened with great interest to everything he had to say, and
then they ate him." |
