It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned. ~Frank A. Clark
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. ~Andre Breton, "Manifesto of Surrealism," 1924
Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything. ~Michael Bamberger
Nothing risque, nothing gained. ~Alexander Woollcott
What is possible? What you will. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author. ~John Keats
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit
I'm not funny. What I am is brave. ~Lucille Ball
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. ~Arnold H. Glasow
When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep. ~Author Unknown
Man was predestined to have free will. ~Hal Lee Luyah
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. ~John Steinbeck
We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way. ~John Muir
If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas? ~Don Meredith
One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. ~C.G. Jung, Integration of the Personality, 1939
The qualities which caused him to be acclaimed the leader, he possessed when he was teaching school, and splitting rails, and reading law in a judge's musty office. From the beginning he was a man among men who always upheld the right, advocated justice for the oppressed, and a square deal for all. ~Frank Dorrance Hopley
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket. ~Elbert Hubbard
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. ~S.I. Hayakawa
I look at it this way. I'm not an eavesdropper; I have an attention surplus disorder. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. ~Luke 2:13-14
