If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ~Edith Wharton
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top. ~Arnold Bennett
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. ~Charles Dickens
If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor. ~Christiaan Barnard
Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. ~Elizabeth Goudge
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing
Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. ~St. Jerome
The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. ~Plato
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu
We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude. ~Helen Hayes
Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober. ~Bill Veeck, The Hustler's Handbook
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St Vincent Millay
Be ye angry, and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. ~Ephesians 4:26-27
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. ~Albert Einstein
The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. ~Andy Rooney
It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it. ~Remy de Gourmont
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance. ~Saul Bellow
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance. ~A. Bronson Alcott
There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life. ~William Lyon Phelps
I use the word "fat." I use that word because that's what people are: they're fat. They're not bulky; they're not large, chunky, hefty or plump. And they're not big-boned. Dinosaurs were big-boned. These people are not overweight: this term somehow implies there is some correct weight. There is no correct weight. Heavy is also a misleading term. An aircraft carrier is heavy; it's not fat. Only people are fat, and that's what fat people are! They're fat! ~George Carlin
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. ~Ambrose Bierce
A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something. ~Harold Coffin
