Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts. ~George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty, 1896
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. ~Al Bernstein
Joel Siegel: "Yes.... Gilda Radner... said this in her book. What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it.... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff. And what Gilda said is, if it weren't for the downside, everyone would want to have it. But there is a downside."
You can never plan the future by the past. ~Edmund Burke, "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly"
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become. ~Charles DuBois
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. ~Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957
A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. ~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885
Know safety, no injury. No safety, know injury. ~Author Unknown
The graveyards are full of indispensable men. ~Charles de Gaulle
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. ~Mark Twain
Upturned toward the sun, eyes closed. That color and warmth I see and feel is the soul on fire. If only it remained when again my eyes opened. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. ~G.K. Chesterton
There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes. ~Jose Ortega y Gasset
He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes. ~Joan Winmill Brown
I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. ~Sir George Porter, quoted in The Observer, 26 August 1973
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ~Eudora Welty
They never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation. ~Jerome K. Jerome
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. ~Charlotte Perkins Gilman
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer. ~Richard Sibbes
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. ~Axel Munthe
I just wish my mouth had a backspace key. ~Author Unknown
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