These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it. ~From a Charles Barkley commercial for basketball shoes, 1993
There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure. ~Author Unknown
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went
I am a private person, but I will reveal this about myself: if you start massaging my shoulders, don't expect me to tell you to stop. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie
Love is the thread that binds us. ~Author Unknown
To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it. ~Samuel Butler, Note-Books
And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here. ~St Augustine
If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. ~Henny Youngman
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. ~John Ruskin
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. ~Robinson Jeffers
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, chapter 4
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Player Piano
The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln
The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world? ~Denis Johnston, The Brazen Horn
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
Ultimate office automation - networked coffee machines. ~Author Unknown
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. ~Elizabeth Drew
One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly. ~Edward C. Steadman
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ~Thomas A. Edison
Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect - 30% of medicine is showbiz. ~Ronald Spark
Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. ~Don Quixote
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