When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. ~Enrique Jardiel Poncela
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it. ~Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~Agatha Christie
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. ~Franklin P. Adams
Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring. ~Author Unknown
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune. ~Sam Walton Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ~Voltaire
Born to golf. Forced to work. ~Author Unknown
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else. ~Cardinal De Retz
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. ~Joan Baez
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. ~Henry David Thoreau
Food is like sex: when you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good. ~Beth McCollister
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~Alvin Toffler
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. ~Havelock Ellis
And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not. ~William Shakespeare And on the eighth day God said, "Okay, Murphy, you're in charge!" ~Author Unknown
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. ~James Baldwin I imagine that yes is the only living thing. ~e.e. cummings
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
In the cookies of life, sisters are the chocolate chips. ~Author Unknown
Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings. ~J. Robert Moskin
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. ~Andre Gide, Le traite du Narcisse, 1891 Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on. ~George Bernard Shaw
The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we've changed this country before. ~Barack Obama, Announcement for President, 2007 Feb 10, Springfield, Illinois
Metaphor for the night sky: A trillion asterisks and no explanations. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. ~Carl Sagan
Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee. ~Robert Burton
Cutting through the acronyms and argot that littered the hearing testimony, the Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the CDA, interrupt that conversation. ~Stewart Dalzell, ruling on the constitutionality of the Communications Decency Act, 1996
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