Breath is Spirit. The act of breathing is Living. ~Author Unknown
I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness. ~Henry David Thoreau
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. ~Max Frisch
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.... There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes. ~Alistair Cooke
The average human has one breast and one testicle. ~Des McHale
All diseases run into one, old age. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Capital punishment: The income tax. ~Jeff Hayes
If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nailbiters. ~Anita Bryant
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. ~Maya Angelou
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. ~Jean de Boufflers
Sewing fills my days, not to mention the living room, bedroom, and closets. ~Author Unknown
I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either. ~Dave Barry
One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ~Odell Shepherd
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. ~Ambrose Bierce
Christianity is not a religion; it's an industry. ~Author Unknown
When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. ~John Burroughs
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. ~Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation. ~Kin Hubbard
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. ~Haim Ginott
No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb