If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. ~Andy Rooney
Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there. ~Amy Li
But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. ~Fareed Zakaria
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ~Thomas Carlyle
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Art Linkletter
Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, "Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked." ~Molly Ivins
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. ~William Shakespeare
The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present. ~David Thelen
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. ~Confucius
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. ~Crowfoot, 1890, as quoted in Catch the Whisper of the Wind compiled by Cheewa James
Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty. ~Lora Brody
There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. ~J. Robert Oppenheimer
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. ~Samuel Johnson
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. ~Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923
The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren't enough. ~Amy Weintraub
Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax. ~Max Baucus
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ~Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
For him that stealeth a Book from this Library, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with Palsy, and all his Members blasted. Let him languish in Pain crying aloud for Mercy and let there be no sur-cease to his Agony till he sink in Dissolution. Let Bookworms gnaw his Entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his final Punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him for ever and aye. ~Curse Against Book Stealers, Monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona
A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right. Author Unknown
Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world. ~Samuel Johnson
One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known. ~Crates
Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes, why shouldn't we? ~Terri Guillemets
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. ~Thomas Paine
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