When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time. ~George Boas
When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man? ~Edith Evans
U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough aluminum to rebuild the commercial air fleet every three months; enough iron and steel to continuously supply all automakers; enough glass to fill New York's World Trade Center every two weeks. ~Environmental Defense Fund advertisement, Christian Science Monitor, 1990
The mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose. ~George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy. ~Author Unknown
I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve! ~Catharine M. Sedgwick
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? ~Robert H. Schuller
Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football. ~Anthony Burgess
A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there, and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you cannot explain. So you walk. ~Author unknown, from New York Times editorial, "The Walk," 25 October 1967
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion. ~F.A. Paradis de Moncrif
Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~Dorothy Parker
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. ~Charles Peguy
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. ~W. Somerset Maugham
Turn your wounds into wisdom. ~Oprah Winfrey
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Language is the dress of thought. ~Samuel Johnson
In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night. ~Mark Twain
...when deep-space exploitation ramps up, it will probably be the megatonic corporations that discover all the new planets and map them. The IBM Stellar Sphere. The Philip Morris Galaxy. Planet Denny's. Every planet will take on the corporate identity of whoever rapes it first. Budweiser World. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 23
Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf. ~Jonatan Martensson
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ~Dwight Morrow
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ~Malachy McCourt
Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds. ~Author Unknown
