I don't do alcohol anymore - I get the same effect just standing up fast. ~Author Unknown
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. ~H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, 1920
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XVIII "A Flood of Sunshine"
Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. ~William Hazlitt
It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen. ~Author Unknown
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes." ~Clare Boothe Luce
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ~Jean Houston
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. ~Henrik Ibsen
And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind. ~Dave Barry
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
Time flies... scrapbook it. ~Vivian Perez-Espinosa, owner of Let�s Scrap!, a scrapbooking store in South Miami, Florida (www.lets-scrap.com)
If you see the world in black and white, you're missing important grey matter. ~Jack Fyock
I've decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I'm having a party! ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com
Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to. ~John Ed Pearce
I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of dreams, one certainly can listen to one's own thoughts, and hear them, or believe that one hears them: the strongest argument adducible in favour of our hearing any thing. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,
Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence. ~Attributed to Gene Baylos
Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National. ~George Will
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. ~George Eliot
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. ~John Cheever
Platonic love is love from the neck up. ~Thyra Smater Winsolow
Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. ~Ayn Rand
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