God - but a word invoked to explain the world. ~Prat de Lamartine
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. ~Maya Angelou
Her kisses left something to be desired... the rest of her. ~Author Unknown
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. ~Charles Lamb
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. ~James Feibleman, Understanding Philosophy, 1973
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows. ~P.G. Wodehouse
For your own sake you should give her a new gown; for variety of dresses rouses desire, and makes an old mistress seem every day a new one. ~William Wycherley
Love, she said, should be said more slowly, and ran from the house. Words could not catch her as such. Honesty is so slow, that is the trouble. ~Author Unknown
Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. ~William Hazlitt, On the Love of Life, 1815
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. ~Erma Bombeck
One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it. ~Georges Courteline, La Philosophie de Georges Courteline
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. ~Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark, swollen buds, strip-tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora. ~Ketzel Levine's talkingplants.com
Long, beautiful, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen... I adore hair! ~James Rado and Gerome Ragni, Hair
People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change.... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
To be a fashionable woman is to know yourself, know what you represent, and know what works for you. To be "in fashion" could be a disaster on 90 percent of women. You are not a page out of Vogue. ~Author Unknown
Sarcasm is the sour cream of wit. ~Author Unknown
I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being. ~Anatole France (Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault), The Garden of Epicurus, 1894
Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs. ~Abraham Meyerson
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. ~Marcelene Cox
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
