We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. ~John Lancaster Spalding
All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed waste-paper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. ~D.H. Lawrence, "Peace and War," Pansies, 1929
Ye cannot serve God and mammon. ~Matthew 6:24
I wasn't using my civil liberties anyway. ~Author Unknown
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicates nothing but the changeableness of the weather. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ~James Douglas, Down Shoe Lane
Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil. ~Martin F. Tupper
Don't chain your worries to your body. The burden soon becomes heavy and your health will give too much of itself to pick up the extra load. ~Astrid Alauda, Dyspeptic Enlightenment
In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a "child of darkness" who is equal and complementary to the more obvious "child of light." ~Laurens van der Post
Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. ~Rebecca West
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ~Eric Hoffer
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. ~Helen Rowland
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. ~Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies, 1928
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have often noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race. ~Don Marquis I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. ~Yves Saint Laurent
Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life. ~Bill Clinton
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. ~Ovid, Metamorphoses There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond. ~Kahlil Gibran
Bikes don't leak oil, they mark their territory. ~Author Unknown
One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage. ~Robert Fulghum
A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work. ~Author Unknown
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