Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood. ~Lucy Ellman
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals. ~Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. ~Don Marquis
There is more to life than increasing its speed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi There is more to life than increasing its speed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi
The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arab Proverb
The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ~Walt Streightiff There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~Beverly Sills
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. ~David McCullough
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. ~Henry Ward Beecher
If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history. ~Pierre Bayle, Historical and Critical Dictionary
Play the music, not the instrument. ~Author Unknown
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man. ~Arnold Toynbee
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. ~Author Unknown
Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. ~Jonatan Martensson
I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~Abraham Lincoln
We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts, to praying about the things that are breaking His heart. ~Margaret Gibb
Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months. ~William D. Tammeus
I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. ~Daniel Boone
It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author - and not to learn it better. ~Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886
The most sensitive members of the human and animal populations are much like the canaries in the mines. They are the first to show distress, often becoming ill for unknown reasons. They provide the distant early warning for us all. ~Karilee and Richard Shames, Feeling Fat, Fuzzy, or Frazzled?, 2005
If black boxes survive air crashes, why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff? ~George Carlin
If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall in to this vice. The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and generosity. ~Abraham Lincoln, address to the Washington Temperance Society, Springfield, Illinois, 22 February 1842
He that is not jealous is not in love. ~St. Augustine
Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution. ~Napoleon I
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