Some stories are true that never happened. ~Elie Weisel
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball. ~Pete Hamill
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. ~Albert Einstein
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. ~Isaac Asimov
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I had a lover's quarrel with the world. ~Robert Frost, The Lesson for Today, 1942 I had a lover's quarrel with the world. ~Robert Frost, The Lesson for Today, 1942
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. ~Hugh Miller, Snow on the Wind
Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate. ~Author Unknown
I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another. ~Al Oerter
The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.... The computer resembles the magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work. Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program. ~Frederick Brooks
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. ~Gail Godwin
If I could find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course. ~Billy Graham
When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up.... When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pinenuts. We don't chop down the trees. ~Wintu Indian, quoted in Julian Burger, The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples, 1990
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. ~Garrison Keillor
Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher
We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit. ~Hubert H. Humphrey
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 1
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. ~Charles Lamb, "Popular Fallacies: That the Worst Puns are the Best," Last Essays of Elia, 1833
Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves. ~William Shakespeare, "Coriolanus"
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