I don't cry over spilt milk, but a fallen scoop of ice cream is enough to ruin my whole day. ~Terri Guillemets
Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. ~W.J. Cameron
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ~Mary Manin Morrissey
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ~Francis Bacon
A drunken man is fitly named: he has drank, till he is drunken: the wine swallows his consciousness, and it sinks therein. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Ah, the joy of suckling! She lovingly watched the fishlike motions of the toothless mouth and she imagined that with her milk there flowed into her little son her deepest thoughts, concepts, and dreams. ~Milan Kundera
Invent a past for the present. ~Daniel Stern
The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost. ~Arthur Schopenhauer
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. ~Harold Geneen
A dog may be man's best friend, but the horse wrote history. ~Author Unknown
That ephemeral sheet,... the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman. ~E. and J. de Goncourt, Journal, July 1858
If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well. ~David Gerrold
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. ~Norman Brown
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money. ~William Lyon Phelps
God's mill grinds slow, but sure. ~George Herbert
Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. ~Author Unknown
Does breast milk come in chocolate? ~Author Unknown
The lively Shadow-World of Song. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 23
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all. ~Elbert Hubbard
He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. ~Baltasar Gracian
Diplomat: A person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. ~Caskie Stinett, Out of the Red, 1960
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ~Simone de Beauvoir