The idea of history in any age, like the idea of property, or of progress, is an unstable compound; it is put together as needed, by historians or by philosophers, out of the irreconcilable opinions of men. ~F. Smith Fussner, The Historical Revolution
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick. ~Thomas Boswell, Washington Post, 13 April 1990
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. ~Soren Kierkegaard
To weep is to make less the depth of grief. ~William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God. ~Carl Jung
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. ~Henry C. Link
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. ~Adlai E. Stevenson
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., speech, Boston, 8 January 1897
Out of all the people I've ever met, you're the one who makes me draw those silly little hearts on my papers. ~Author Unknown
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. ~Seneca
One of the greatest captains of the age. ~Benjamin Franklin
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. ~Baruch Spinoza
The groves were God's first temples. ~William Cullen Bryant, "A Forest Hymn"
History begins in novel and ends in essay. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay
Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. ~Henry David Thoreau
I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine. ~Lou Reed
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~Thomas Paine
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. ~John Taylor
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The plague of government is senile delinquency. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. ~John L. McClenahan
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
The Christian Right is neither. ~Author Unknown
Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of. ~Agnes' Law
