Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men - and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort - as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails. ~Robert Ingersoll, Crimes Against Criminals
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. ~Josh Billings
Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. ~Edwin Hubbel Chapin
It's important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle. ~Author Unknown
Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day. ~Carol Krucoff
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ~Thomas Browne, An Essay on Death
Happiness flutters in the air whilst we rest among the breaths of nature. ~Kelly Scheaffer
We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable. ~J.B. Priestley
When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense. ~David Letterman
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. ~Josephine Hart
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ~Adlai Stevenson
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way. ~Mark Twain
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~Karl Reiland
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. ~Author Unknown
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Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves. ~William Shakespeare, "Coriolanus"
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else. ~Havelock Ellis
The story of Harold Ross, the New Yorker and me is a mere footnote to the story of our time, and we might as well face the truth that to researchers of the future, poking about among the ruins of time, we shall all be tiny glitters. But then, so are diamonds. ~James Thurber
If I'm trying to sleep, the ideas won't stop. If I'm trying to write, there appears a barren nothingness. ~Carrie Latet
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. ~Dodie Smith, I Capture The Castle Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. ~Dodie Smith, I Capture The Castle Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied. ~Edward Cheyfitz
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and put them in my mouth. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration. ~Henry David Thoreau
Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind." ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love
There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's. ~Clyde Moore There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's. ~Clyde Moore
Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be. ~P.J. O'Rourke
