If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ~Bern Williams
But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. ~Virginia Woolf
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders. ~Tom Peters
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings - they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. Nonetheless they embody the concentrated experience of the race. ~Norman Douglas
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government. ~Alexander Chase, Perspectives, 1966
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. ~Andrew Brown
Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse. ~Elizabeth Kenny
It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat. ~Loren Eiseley, "The Innocent Fox," The Star Thrower, 1978
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. ~Henry Louis Mencken
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ~Bible, John 15:13
If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No." ~Margaret "Stevie" Smith
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. ~H.V. Prochnow
I'm itching to be stitching! ~Author Unknown
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. ~Alfred North Whitehead
It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car. ~J.J. Walsh
Worry is rust upon the blade. ~Henry Ward Hughes
I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. ~George Meredith
You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. ~Harvey Diamond
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. ~Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis," 1967
If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties. ~Henry Ward Beecher
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. ~Mary Wortley Montagu
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. ~J.M. Barrie, Courage, 1922
Never strike your wife - even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
