A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit
The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears. ~W.H. Auden The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future. ~Shiloh Morrison
Platitude: a banal or stale remark; a commonplace or trite remark or idea, especially one uttered as if it were original or momentous.
To rule is easy, to govern difficult. ~Johann W. von Goethe
Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest. ~Karen Savage and Patricia Adams, The Good Stepmother
The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash. ~Julie Furtado
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. ~Doug Larson
We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure. ~Sydney J. Harris
In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe. ~Louis Pasteur
But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface. ~Mark Twain
How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take? ~Adin Ballou, The Non-Resistant, 5 February 1845
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. ~William James
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. ~Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
I cannot afford to waste my time making money. ~Louis Agassiz
When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense. ~David Letterman
It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball. ~Pete Sampras It's only a matter of inches, but skipping gets me just that much closer to heaven. ~Jessi Lane Adams
Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history. ~P.J. O'Rourke
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. ~Arthur Miller
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ~Aldous Huxley
A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. ~Luke 12:15
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men, 1850
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. ~Betty Friedan
The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse. ~Author Unknown
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