Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. ~Letitia Landon
There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil. ~Pliny, about the opal
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. ~Ansel Adams
Your stomach shouldn't be a waist basket. ~Author Unknown
A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something. ~Harold Coffin
A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows. ~Henry Ward Beecher
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years. ~Mark Twain
The jeweler allows me to wear the sapphire blue lake on my finger, the emerald green leaves around my neck, and take the citrine sunset with me wherever I go. Jewelry has become my daytime link to nature in an office with no windows. And if I have to work late, there's nothing like diamond stars and a pearl full moon against an onyx night sky. ~Astrid Alauda, "Office With No Windows"
There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people. ~R.H. Blyth
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. ~Dag Hammarskjold
Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Americans are broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there is something wrong with him. ~Art Buchwald, "How Un-American Can You Get?," Have I Ever Lied to You?, 1966
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. ~Sigmund Freud
If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No." ~Margaret "Stevie" Smith
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them. ~James Fallows
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. ~Arthur Schopenhauer
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through. ~Paul Valery, Mauvaises pensees et autres, 1942
I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. ~Will Rogers
I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind! ~Author Unknown
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. ~Aaron Rose
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. ~John Shirley
Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing. ~E.B. White
The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul. ~Rona Barrett
Leisure tends to corrupt, and absolute leisure corrupts absolutely. ~Edgar A. Shoaff
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