You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide. ~Kurt Vonnegut
May love and light fill your home and heart at Hanukkah. ~Author Unknown
Oh golly gee, damn! ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer.... Maybe self-destruction is the answer. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Never trust a skinny ice cream man. ~Ben Cohen
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people. ~Barbara Walters
At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact. ~George Plimpton
The smart cat doesn't let on that he is. ~H.G. Frommer
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. ~William Hazlitt
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. ~Alfred de Musset, Le Poete dechu, 1839
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. ~Mary Ellen Kelly
Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Drawing on my find command of language, I said nothing. ~Robert Charles Benchley
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~Danny Kaye
No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up. ~Robert Lynd
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Following the Equator, 1897
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~Albert Einstein
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ~Benjamin Franklin
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? ~Benjamin Franklin
