And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. ~Francis Rabelais
It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. ~Bill Watterson
Pronouns make it hard to keep our sexual orientation a secret when our co-workers ask us about our weekend. "I had a great time with... them." Great! Now they don't think you're queer - just a big slut! ~Judy Carter
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Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern society in a habitat unfit to grow a tomato. ~Jason Love
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A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. ~W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. ~Author Unknown
Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue. ~Francois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Maximes, 1678
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. ~Proverbs 15:17
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. ~Pete Dye
The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst. ~Marge Kennedy
A neurotic's problems are invisible to others - and to himself, as well. ~Terri Guillemets
Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. ~Elizabeth Elliot
All requests for leave of absence on account of grandmother's funeral, sore throat, housecleaning, lame back, turning of the ringer, headaches, brain storm, cousin's wedding, general ailments or other legitimate excuses must be made out and handed to the boss not later than 10 a.m. on the morning of the game. ~Traditional gag notice hung in offices and factories at a time period when all games were played during daylight hours
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
No modern idea has affected history more than the passion of nationalism. ~Charles R. Poinsatte, Understanding History Through the American Experience
You know you're from Arizona when you drive two miles around a parking lot looking for a shady place - even in the dead of winter. ~Local Saying
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. ~Rene Descartes, "Meditations on First Philosophy"
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization. ~W.E.B. DuBois
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. ~Sigmund Freud
Your life may be the only Bible some people read. ~Author Unknown
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: That you are dreadfully like other people. ~James Russell Lowell, "Democracy Address," Birmingham, England, 6 October 1884
It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood. ~Bernand De Voto, Fortune, June 1947
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