Someone might say of me that I have only made a bouquet of other people's flowers here, having supplied nothing of my own but the thread to bind them. ~Michel de Montaigne Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. ~Gloria Steinem
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. ~Anais Nin
Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine. ~Austin O'Malley
It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears. ~Plutarch
Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. ~The Koran
It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story - especially when you're not sure which half they know. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. ~Samuel Johnson
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ~Matsuo Basho Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. ~Elbert Hubbard
A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is. ~Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer. I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. ~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. ~George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States, 1921
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. ~John Gunther
History is a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living. ~William Carlos Williams
In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer. ~Terri Guillemets
Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue. ~Louise J. Kaplan, Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual, 1978
What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven. ~Friedrich Holderlin
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. ~George Bernard Shaw
Imaginary gardens with real toads in them. ~Marianne Moore's definition of poetry, "Poetry," Collected Poems, 1951
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of disease. ~Edward Jenner
All a manager has to do is keep eleven players happy - the eleven in the reserves. The first team are happy because they are in the first team. ~Rodney Marsh, 1979
When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense. ~David Letterman
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Author Unknown
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. ~W.E.B. DuBois
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