Our forefathers did without sugar until the 13th century, without coal fires until the 14th, without buttered bread until the 16th, without tea or soup until the 17th, without gas, matches or electricity until the 20th. ~Author Unknown
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. ~Author Unknown
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking, offend contrary to this dutie of breast feeding and reflect that meanes which God hath ordained as best; and so oppose their shallow wits to his unsearchable wisdom. ~William Gouge, 1622
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. ~Jerome Lawrence
Aphorist: someone who formulates aphorisms.
A bicycle does get you there and more.... And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun. ~Bill Emerson, "On Bicycling," Saturday Evening Post, 29 July 1967
Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot. ~Dick Gregory
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. ~P. J. O'Rourke
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. ~Seven Wright
May you live all the days of your life. ~Irish blessing, also attributed to Jonathan Swift
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. ~Iris Murdoch
All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance. ~V.V. Rozanov
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ~Aristotle
The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city. ~Carl van Vechten
They may as well have called the sun a ball of flaming joy. ~Terri Guillemets
A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. ~Author Unknown
Every man over forty is responsible for his face. ~Abraham Lincoln
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ~Matsuo Basho Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. ~Elbert Hubbard
The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents. ~John J. Plomp
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ~Pearl S. Buck
Most horror movies are certainly that. ~Brendan Francis
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