There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's cafe. ~Joseph W. Beach
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. ~Thomas Szaz
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ~Anais Nin
After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor. ~Bill Kelly, "Mordillo"
The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal - it's also the reason they hate birds. ~K.C. Buffington
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit. ~Proverbs 17:27
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles Schulz
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. ~Oscar Wilde
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ~Loren Eiseley
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley
Really I don't dislike to cook, but what you cook is eaten so quickly. When you sew, you have something that will last to show for your efforts. ~Elizabeth Travis Johnson
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; they put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! ~Isaiah 5:20
He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. ~Adlai Stevenson
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. ~John Burroughs
Sometimes it is useful to know how large your zero is. ~Author Unknown
What good is having someone who can walk on water if you don't follow in his footsteps? ~Author Unknown
Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely. ~Judge Learned Hand, in P. Hamburger, The Great Judge, 1946
We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth. ~Walter Raleigh, History of the World
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it. ~Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, 1872
I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. ~Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)
