Women know not the whole of their coquetry. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ~William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693
The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it. ~Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. ~Dan Greenburg
The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts. ~Robert South
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929
History does not unfold: it piles up. ~Robert M. Adams, Bad Mouth
Keep the paint up, and the rubber down! ~Author Unknown
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. ~Bill Clinton
There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did." ~J.K. Rowling, "The Missing Mirror," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. ~Aldous Huxley Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. ~Aldous Huxley
The best thing about doing needlepoint for very small children is that they are so uncritical. The don't say things like, "I see you've missed some stitches over here on the leg, was that intentional?" or "Was this creature blinded in a fight?" They will clasp it in their little arms and love it besottedly, inseparably as the thing becomes more and more rancid. ~Carole Berman and Jennifer Lazarus
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players i.e., everybody, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. ~Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens, 1991
There is more to life than increasing its speed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi There is more to life than increasing its speed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi
Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than. ~Oscar Holmolka
France is France and a grand place for Frenchman. ~Harry Truman, letter to Bess Wallace, 5 May 1918
I've found without question that the best way to lead others to a more plant-based diet is by example - to lead with your fork, not your mouth. ~Bernie Wilke, quoted in Joanne Stepaniak, The Vegan Sourcebook, 1998
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. ~From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out-of-doors. ~Paul O'Neil
The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit. ~St Frances de Sales