Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. ~Edmund Burke
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. ~Don Wilder and Bill Rechin
This morning, prompted by increasing concerns about terrorism, oil prices reached a record high as the cost of a barrel of crude is a whopping $44.34. Wow, it seems shocking that a product of finite supply gets more expensive the more we use it. Now the terror alert means higher oil prices, which oddly enough means higher profits for oil companies giving them more money to give to politicians whose policies may favor the oil companies such as raising the terror alert level. As Simba once told us: "It's the circle of life." ~Jon Stewart
The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank. ~George Sheehan
He completed the universe, he achieved the physical unity of the globe. ~Lamartine
Courage is knowing what not to fear. ~Plato
Laughorisms: humorous aphorisms, a term coined by Ambrose Bierce.
Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint. ~Joseph W. Krutch U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough aluminum to rebuild the commercial air fleet every three months; enough iron and steel to continuously supply all automakers; enough glass to fill New York's World Trade Center every two weeks. ~Environmental Defense Fund advertisement, Christian Science Monitor, 1990
Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe. ~Jules Romains, Men of Good Will
A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
Automobiles are not ferocious.... it is man who is to be feared. ~Robbins B. Stoeckel
My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather. ~Terri Guillemets
It proves nothing. Must things be proved in order to be painful or pleasant? They need only be felt. ~"The Manuscript"
Lack of money is the root of all evil. ~George Bernard Shaw
Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included. ~Author Unknown
A great artist is always before his time or behind it. ~George Moore
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ~Washington Irving
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. ~Jessamyn West
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.) ~Steven Levy, 1997
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. ~Lord John Russell
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