Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go. ~Blaise Pascal
We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves. ~Arnold Toynbee
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. ~Winston Churchill
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. ~Duane Michals, Real Dreams
Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war. ~George Meredith, Beauchamp's Career
Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology. ~Karl Marx, Capital, 1867
Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it. ~Kin Hubbard
Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~Kimberly Johnson
Don't offer a neurotic happiness - he'll never take it. There's a bout of misery keeping him perfectly content. ~Terri Guillemets
"This fall I think you're riding for - it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started." ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 24, spoken by the character Mr. Antolini
Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics. ~Author Unknown
So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. ~John Milton
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains? ~Francis Wright, 1828
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. ~Georges Duhamel
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
In my opinion, a horse is the animal to have. Eleven-hundred pounds of raw muscle, power, grace, and sweat between your legs - it's something you just can't get from a pet hamster. ~Author Unknown
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. ~Steve Bluestone
A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is... the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Democratic National Convention, 18 August 1956
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. ~Arnold H. Glasow
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. ~Andre Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1925
