A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ~G.K. Chesterton
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf. ~Robert Lynd
A hug is worth a thousand words. ~Author Unknown
The historian lays humanity on the couch. ~Lynn White, Jr.
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage. ~William Stewart Halsted
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. ~Woody Allen
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. ~Joseph Conrad
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ~Norman Cousins
The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands. ~Author Unknown
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution. ~Author Unknown
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ~Orson Scott Card
Her kisses left something to be desired... the rest of her. ~Author Unknown
I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air. ~Sholem Asch
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ~Benjamin Franklin
Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678
Pun: the humorous use of words, playing on similarities in sound or differences in meaning. Example: "Beginning gardeners work by trowel and error."
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! ~George Eliot
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. ~Clare Boothe Luce
This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was. ~Quentin Crisp
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. ~Norman Vincent Peale
This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ~George Bernard Shaw
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ~Annie Dillard