A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ~Samuel McChord Crothers, "Every Man's Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else," The Dame School of Experience, 1920
It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier
When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm. ~Dan Heist
When life gives you scraps, make something with them. ~Author Unknown
The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end. ~Don Marquis
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties; He integrates empirically. ~Albert Einstein
The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it. ~Jose Iturbi
Drawing is putting a line round an idea. ~Henri Matisse
Most people know more about their congressmen via smear campaigns than they know about their own neighbor via conversations, and a lot of people know more about Britney Spears via tabloids than they know about their own congressmen via voting booklets. Does anyone else see the problem here? ~Brock Fiant
I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. ~Claes Oldenburg
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~Victor Hugo
Few great men could pass Personnel. ~Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society, 1956
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. ~Victor Hugo
Women agonize... over cancer; we take as a personal threat the lump in every friend's breast. ~Martha Weinman Lear, Heartsounds
Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. ~James Gibbons Huneker
I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker. ~Voltaire
"Your money, or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. ~Lydia Maria Child
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind... ~Hosea 8:7
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. ~H.L. Mencken
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. ~William Hazlitt
Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says, "I am coming." ~Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Minor Poems, Copa
Never judge a book by its movie. ~J.W. Eagan
Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there. ~Author Unknown
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