There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. ~Samuel Johnson
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. ~John Wilmot
Seagulls... slim yachts of the element. ~Robinson Jeffers
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking. ~Alfred North Whitehead
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere
Christmas is the day that holds all time together. ~Alexander Smith
If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check. ~Dan Quayle, attributed
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. ~Joseph Campbell
Gotta use your brain, it's the most important part of your equipment. ~Kevin Andrews and Warren Miller, Extreme Skiing
If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill
The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive - a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society - a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself.... The purpose of man's life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question. ~Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957 (Thanks, Mary)
If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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The best way to get something done is to begin. ~Author Unknown
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. ~Gene Perret
The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. ~Maya Angelou
You're the guy that'll be sneaking out of your bedroom at three o'clock in the morning to look at your bike. ~Paul Teutul, Sr., American Chopper, "Billy Joel"
No man's credit is as good as his money. ~E.W. Howe, Sinner Sermons
Every burned book enlightens the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Computers must be female. No one but the creator understands their internal logic. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else. The message "Bad command or file name" is about as informative as, "If you don't know why I'm mad at you, then I'm certainly not going to tell you." Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for later retrieval. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it. ~Author Unknown
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. ~Bernard Berenson, Notebook, 1892
I love sewing and have plenty of material witnesses. ~Author Unknown
