Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it. ~Stephen Baker
...I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh as that was! My very heart leaped with delight at the sound. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Chim?ra," A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, 1852 (about Pegasus)
We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. ~George Bush
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing. ~Jean Baptist Colbert, attributed
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. ~Carl G. Jung
A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother. ~William Shakespeare
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. ~Carl Sandburg
At high tide the fish eat ants; at low tide the ants eat fish. ~Thai Proverb
No vacation goes unpunished. ~Karl Hakkarainen
An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis. ~Bergen Evans, "A Tale of a Tub," The Natural History of Nonsense
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn, 1881
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. ~Bill Clinton
I have gained and lost the same ten pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have deja vu. ~Jane Wagner
The phrase "working mother" is redundant. ~Jane Sellman
The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise. ~African Proverb
Hospitality, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. ~Emerson M. Pugh
The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6
An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. ~Jean Cocteau, Newsweek, 16 May 1955
Help one another, is part of the religion of sisterhood. ~Louisa May Alcott
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. ~Elias Canetti
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living. ~Alvin Dark
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. ~Henry David Thoreau
For the most part, Western medicine doctors are not healers, preventers, listeners, or educators. But they're damned good at saving a life and the other aspects kick the beam. It's about time we brought some balance back to the scale. ~Claire Todae