If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. ~W.H. Auden, A Certain World
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. ~Seneca
Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing. ~E.B. White
Know safety, no injury. No safety, know injury. ~Author Unknown
Let your working ideas go for a picnic - sometimes the fresh air and ant bites are just what they need. Many great ideas were bitten a little at the beginning. ~Carrie Latet
A sister is a forever friend. ~Author Unknown
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. ~John Updike
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. ~Henry David Thoreau
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot. ~Author Unknown
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. ~Robert E. Lee, letter to his wife, 1864
Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I. ~Anne Gibbons
You know you live in Phoenix when the four seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and are you freakin' kidding me?! ~Author Unknown
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. ~Norman Vincent Peale
Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ~Henry David Thoreau
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. ~Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. ~Mia Hamm
I thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got older. But it turns out it's something you have to choose to do. ~From the television show Scrubs
Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit." ~Bill Maher, on Politically Incorrect, 1995
A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak. ~Michael Garrett Marino
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ~Lily Tomlin
Education should be exercise; it has become massage. ~Martin H. Fischer
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