horseback riding quotes

Needlepoint is a superb way to stop smoking and nibbling, and unlike counted cross stitch also allows the mind to wander. ~Carole Berman and Jennifer Lazarus



The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. ~Susan Sontag



You are your own judge. The verdict is up to you. ~Astrid Alauda



Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism. ~John M. Shanahan, The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)



Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there. ~Henry Miller, Sexus



I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon. ~Ellen DeGeneres



Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ~William Faulkner



A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. ~Carl Reiner



Fire is the best of servants; but what a master! ~Thomas Carlyle



My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats. ~John Cheever, letter to Philip Roth, 10 May 1982, published in The Letters of John Cheever, 1989, concerning his cancer and its treatment



Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at. ~Noel Coward, attributed



Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God. ~Author Unknown



A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. ~Charles Reade



Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.



So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free. ~Jason Love



Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne



A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. ~Henry Fielding



Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb