The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. ~Daniel Webster
A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not. ~Author Unknown
Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own. ~Author Unknown
Baseball isn't a business, it's more like a disease. ~Walter F. O'Malley
Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie. ~Max Beerbohm, "Hosts and Guests," 1918
God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine. ~David Nicholas
Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him. ~Colonel Potter
I have a "carpe diem" mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet. ~Joanne Sherman
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. ~James Thurber
Ibid: an abbreviation for ibidem, a Latin word meaning in the same place; it is used in footnotes and bibliographies to refer to a source cited in a previous entry.
Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away. ~E.W. Howe
If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it. ~Author Unknown
They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny a sun because it is not always day. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Staying with people consists in your not having your own way, and their not having theirs. ~Maarten Maartens
An artist's career always begins tomorrow. ~James McNeill Whistler
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. ~Abraham Lincoln
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ~Honore de Balzac
Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality. ~Jacques Rigaut, Pensees
A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence. ~Cathy Crimmins
Fort Yuma is probably the hottest place on earth. The thermometer stays at one hundred and twenty in the shade there all the time - except when it varies and goes higher. It is a U.S. military post, and its occupants get so used to the terrific heat that they suffer without it. There is a tradition... that a very, very wicked soldier died there, once, and of course, went straight to the hottest corner of perdition, - and the next day he telegraphed back for his blankets. ~Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1872, chapter LVI
Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quite and calm.... One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence. ~Andre Kostelanetz
