These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart. ~Gilbert Highet
Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. ~Ashleigh Brilliant
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts on principle. ~G.K. Chesterton
The politicians say "we" can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians. ~Steve Forbes
I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty
I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that? ~Author unknown, as seen on a T-shirt
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ~Charles de Gaulle
Psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ~Karen Horney, Our Inner Conflicts, 1945
Believing is easier than thinking. Hence so many more believers than thinkers. ~Bruce Calvert
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. ~Pablo Picasso
You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds. ~Henry David Thoreau
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath. ~Dave Barry
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. ~Luke 12:19
...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)
Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past. ~Jack London
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ~Willa Cather, 1913
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists. ~Joan Gussow
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. ~Emmanuel
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ~Henry Louis Mencken, "Sententiae," This and That: A Mencken Chrestomathy, 1948