The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~Hanna Rion
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared. ~Otto Weininger
Forbidden things have a secret charm. ~Publius Cornelius Tacitus
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. ~Yogi Berra
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. ~Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi to Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf, 1882
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. ~Alan Watts
The reflex is physiology below the collar button. Psychology is physiology above the collar button. ~Martin H. Fischer
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? ~John Churton Collins, Aphorisms in the English Review, 1914
The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. ~R.D. Laing
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. ~Ruth Graham
Does "anal-retentive" have a hyphen? ~Alison Bechdel, 1990 Dykes to Watch Out For calendar (Thanks, Chelsea)
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ~Mildred Barthel
Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings. ~Alfred North Whitehead
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. ~Matthew Arnold
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life? ~Charles A. Lindbergh, Reader's Digest, November 1939
Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark. ~Author Unknown
His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. ~Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, 1749
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ~Robert C. Gallagher
Dreams are free therapy, but you can only get appointments at night. ~Grey Livingston
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. ~Carl G. Jung
Horse sense, n.: Stable thinking. ~Author Unknown
To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error. ~Liz Armbruster, on www.robertbrault.com
The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life. ~Carl Van Vechten
Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827