Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. ~Gene Perret
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness. ~Eric Sevareid, "The Press and the People," television program, 1959
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. ~Malcolm Muggeridge
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ~Henry Ward Beecher
An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job. ~Author Unknown
The Realm of Fairy is a strange shadow land, lying just beyond the fields we know. ~Author Unknown
Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep. ~H.M. Tomlinson
Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats. ~Douglas Busch
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. ~Lauren Bacall
A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ~Proverb
Quote A: �If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.� ~Toni Morrison
A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. ~Author unknown, from an editorial in New York Tribune, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must he know, to whom portents and prodigies are of daily occurrence; and for whom nature is hourly working wonders invisible to every other eye, only to supply them with subjects of conversation? ~Samuel Johnson How many merits one sees in those one likes! how many faults in those one dislikes! Yet people fancy they see with their eyes. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Patriotism knows neither latitude nor longitude. It is not climatic. ~E.A. Storrs
Drinking nature is an unquenchable thirst. ~Berri Clove
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. ~T.H. Huxley, "Evolution and Ethics," 1893
Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night. ~Paul Hornung
The surest way to be alone is to get married. ~Gloria Steinem
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. ~George Jean Nathan
In dog years, I'm dead. ~Author Unknown
I figure that the degree of difficulty in combining two lives ranks somewhere between rerouting a hurricane and finding a parking place in downtown Manhattan. ~Claire Cloninger, "When the Glass Slipper Doesn't Fit and the Silver Spoon is in Someone Else's Mouth"
Diplomacy: The business of handling a porcupine without disturbing the quills. ~Author Unknown