Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ~Maya Angelou, PBS, 28 March 1988
Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella. ~Terri Guillemets
Please don't throw your cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light. ~Author Unknown
Exercise daily. Walk with the Lord! ~Author Unknown
Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. ~Author Unknown
If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine. ~Author Unknown
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? ~Pablo Casals
The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges. ~Germaine Greer
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ~Simone de Beauvoir
Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. ~Ezekiel 16:44
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. ~Martin Luther
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. ~Erich Fromm (Thanks, Sarah)
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 9, spoken by the character Atticus
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. ~Katherine Hepburn
God created sex. Priests created marriage. ~Voltaire
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Unknown author, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished? ~Francis Bacon
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. ~Robert Collyer
A fine head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one. ~Lycurgus
If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. ~Terri Guillemets
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