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Marriage must constantly fight against a monster which devours everything: routine. ~Honore de Balzac



A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ~Quentin Crisp



The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



One of the great disappointments of a football game is that the cheerleaders never seem to get injured. ~Author Unknown



Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan, 1896



Always live up to your standards - by lowering them, if necessary. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. ~Thomas Jefferson



By daily dying I have come to be. ~Theodore Roethke



When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic. ~Jane Wagner, In Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, 1985, performed by Lily Tomlin



I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. ~Lillian Smith



In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? ~Barack Obama, Keynote Address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, 2004 Jul 27



Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex." ~Dick Cavett, 1978



The sound of a car door opening in front of you is similar to the sound of a gun being cocked. ~Amy Webster



Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith. ~Author Unknown



Don't let the past steal your present. ~Terri Guillemets



I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn. ~W.H. Hudson, The Book of a Naturalist, 1919



Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb



History: gossip well told. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary



Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day. ~Ringo Starr