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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. ~A.A. Milne



The birds are molting. If only man could molt also - his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions. ~James Allen



No. ~President Jimmy Carter's daughter Amy, when asked if she had any message for the children of America



To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime. ~Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize 1915



An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. ~Honore de Balzac, "Scnes de la vie Parisienne," La Maison Nucingen, 1838



Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb



Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. ~W.J. Cameron



Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes. ~Harlan Mills



Envy is ignorance. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The signs of the zodiac are karmic patterns; the planets are the looms; the will is the weaver. ~Author Unknown



Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. ~Ambrose Bierce



Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer



Collecting quotations is an insidious, even embarrassing habit, like ragpicking or hoarding rocks or trying on other people's laundry. I got into it originally while trying to break an addiction to candy. I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth. ~Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, "Sources, References, and Notes," 1984



Evolution is individual - devolution is collective. ~Martin H. Fischer



Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge



A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does. ~Lewis B. Hershey, News summaries, 31 December 1951



It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. ~Author unknown, sometimes attributed to M. Grundler



If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. ~Don Marquis



Death is the surest calculation that can be made. ~Ludwig B�chner, Force and Matter



The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science. ~Claude Bernard