I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~Sara Teasdale, "The Philosopher"
Homecoming unites the past and the present. ~Author Unknown
God is the perfect poet. ~Robert Browning
There may be dust in my house but there isn't any on me. ~Author Unknown
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. ~Michael Pollan, Second Nature, 1991
Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, 1872
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 3
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks of honour we had forgotten - duty and patriotism, clad in glittering white; the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to heaven. ~David Lloyd George
You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings. ~Christina G. Rossetti
If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower. ~Samuel Smiles
Quote A: �Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.� ~Author Unknown
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. ~John Peel
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. ~Buddha
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. ~Don Marquis
Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The first time the duchess halted by my side, I whispered to her to calm her gushing spirits, not to meddle with her dress, and for public opinion's sake, not to step so high. I said she could get over just as much ground at a moderate gait; and, beside the noble grand duke, her father, might happen along at any moment. I might as well have talked to the wind. She only laughed that characteristic laugh of hers that silvery laugh that I could recognize anywhere if I were to the leeward, and then, bending a little, she grabbed up the sides of her apparel with both hands, began to jerk it to and fro in a violent manner, threw her magnificent head back and skipped furiously away on an Irish jig step, all excitement, wild hilarity, distracted costume, frenzied motion! A spectacle to seal the eye-balls and to astonish the soul of a hermit! ~Mark Twain (unconfirmed), Atlanta Daily Constitution, 28 February 1878, "The Fascinating Duchess"
Poker's a day to learn and a lifetime to master. ~Robert Williamson III
Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother. ~Edward H. Dreschnack Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother. ~Edward H. Dreschnack
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson