Jews don't go camping. Life is hard enough as it is. ~Carol Siskind
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. ~Mark Twain
Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned. ~Tenzin Gyatso Affluence creates poverty. ~Marshall McLuhan
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. ~Charles Lamb
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. ~Will Rogers
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. ~Dale Carnegie
Mammon, n.: The god of the world's leading religion. ~Ambrose Bierce
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. ~Dave Barry
It's okay to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it. ~Steve McConnell
What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. ~Gloria Steinem
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. ~Pete Dye
Keep the paint up, and the rubber down! ~Author Unknown
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals
If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. ~Author Unknown
It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much. ~Norman Lear
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston
The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country. ~Hardy Amies
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. ~Napoleon
The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it? ~Nicholas Rowe
Hot Topic Quotations: August 2002
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. ~Jules Reynard
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird