Angels skip, fairies skip, children skip - why can't you and I skip? ~Jessi Lane Adams
The wise man reads both books and life itself. ~Lin Yutang
When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever.... I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it. ~H.L. Mencken
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. ~Letitia Landon
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. ~Lenny Bruce
There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. ~Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, 1968
Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of. ~Agnes' Law
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. ~Mark Twain, Notebooks, 1935
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. ~Maya Angelou
Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail. ~Benjamin R. Barber
I say never be complete. I say stop being perfect. I say let's evolve. Let the chips fall where they may. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk
We wanted to blast the world free of history.... picture yourself planting radishes and seed potatoes on the fifteenth green of a forgotten golf course. You'll hunt elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center, and dig clams next to the skeleton of the Space Needle leaning at a forty-five degree angle. We'll paint the skyscrapers with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what's left of mankind will retreat to empty zoos and lock itself in cages as protection against the bears and big cats and wolves that pace and watch us from outside the cage bars at night. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 16
He should, as he list, be able to prove the moon made of grene cheese. ~Sir Thomas More
True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The best way to stop smoking is to just stop - no ifs, ands or butts. ~Edith Zittler
Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age. ~Carrie Latet
There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled. ~La Bruyere, Characters, 1688
Whenever the ball flew toward our goal and a score seemed inevitable, Jesus reached his foot out and cleared the ball. ~Author unknown, from an article in Rio de Janeiro's Jornal dos Sports
The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a person who quotes great American novelists is anything but treacherous, and in general a man who says you needn't worry about money, or a man who smokes cigarettes, is somewhere in between. ~Lemony Snicket
If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. ~Pope John Paul II
Life only starts when love comes. ~From the movie Bill of Divorcement, 1932
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. ~Baltasar Gracian
The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain. ~Lu Yu