If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. ~Anatole France
Every baby needs a lap. ~Henry Robin
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ~Voltaire
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. ~Jesse Jackson
A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. ~Francis Bacon
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. ~Frank Moore Colby
Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale. ~Victoria Secunda, Women and Their Fathers, 1992
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~Dorothy Parker (Thanks, Kaitlin) The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~Dorothy Parker (Thanks, Kaitlin)
The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy. ~Angelina Jolie
God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. ~E.M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born, 1973
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. ~Agnes M. Pahro
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. ~Henry David Thoreau
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. ~William Ralph Inge
Unto those Three Things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this Fourth, to find a Book Printed without erratas. ~Alfonso de Cartagena
Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
A fine head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one. ~Lycurgus
No news is good news. No journalists is even better. ~Nicolas Bentley
Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive. ~Eliza Cook
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. ~Havelock Ellis
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain
Four little Persians, but only one looked in my direction. I extended a tentative finger and two soft paws clung to it. There was a contented sound of purring, I suspect on both our parts. ~George Freedley
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. ~Dereke Bruce