Angels sail back to God on the sea of joy. ~Terri Guillemets
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer
Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her? ~Helen Rowland
Love makes time pass; time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life. ~Rene Dubos, quoted in Life, 28 July 1970
Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along. ~Margaret Culkin Banning
Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about! ~Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp. ~Author Unknown
A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. ~The Collected Later Poems of William Carlos Williams
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said 'Stop! don't do it!' 'Why shouldn't I?' he said. I said, 'Well, there's so much to live for!' He said, 'Like what?' I said, 'Well...are you religious or atheist?' He said, 'Religious.' I said, 'Me too! Are you Christian or Buddhist?' He said, 'Christian.' I said, 'Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?' He said, 'Protestant.' I said, 'Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?' He said, 'Baptist!' I said, 'Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist church of god or Baptist church of the lord?' He said, 'Baptist church of god!' I said, 'Me too! Are you original Baptist church of god, or are you reformed Baptist church of god?' He said, 'Reformed Baptist church of god!' I said, 'Me too! Are you reformed Baptist church of god, reformation of 1879, or reformed Baptist church of god, reformation of 1915?' He said, 'Reformed Baptist church of god, reformation of 1915!' I said, 'Die, heretic scum,' and pushed him off. ~Emo Phillips
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. ~Confucius
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872
A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows. ~George Bernard Shaw
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~Anais Nin, Diary, 1969
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. ~Euclid
Skipping turns your legs into built-in pogo sticks. ~Jessi Lane Adams
When somebody tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a football. ~Author Unknown
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. ~Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. ~Charles Caleb Colton
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people. ~David Sarnoff