To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. ~Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942
Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. ~Norman Cousins
Art is pictures straight from the heart. ~Ben, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones. ~Gabirol (Solomon ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol), The Choice of Pearls
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
Fire takes no holiday. ~Author Unknown
There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it. ~Tommy Bolt, about the tempers of modern players
Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so. ~Charles du Bos
Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. ~Author Unknown
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. ~Walter Pater
History is the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity. ~Robert S. Lynd
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. ~Lowell Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. ~Lowell
Middle age: When you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. ~Ogden Nash
So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 16, spoken by the character Atticus
Most people do not pray; they only beg. ~George Bernard Shaw
The time to begin most things is ten years ago. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Ultimate office automation - networked coffee machines. ~Author Unknown
Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. ~Jonathan Swift
For there'll be no parting there. ~Billy Bennett
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away; and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers. ~Charles Kingsley
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire
If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. ~Henny Youngman
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