Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. ~Sydney Smith
The first thing you lose on a diet is your sense of humor. ~Author Unknown
What has been the effect of religious coercion? To make half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. ~Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1785
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As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
What is a home without children? Quiet. ~Henny Youngman
Many an Irish property was increased by the lace of a daughter's petticoat. ~Irish Proverb
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~Buddhist Saying
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept. ~Saint Francis de Sales
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit
How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it. ~Leo Tolstoy, Last Diaries, 1960
Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
The cold is a good counselor, but it is cold. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. ~Edward Young, Night Thoughts
The Internet is the trailer park for the soul. ~Marilyn Manson
A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. ~Pam Brown
A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. ~Leo Rosten Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously. ~Arland Ussher
Your necklace may break, the fau tree may burst, but my tattooing is indestructible. It is an everlasting gem that you will take into your grave. ~Verse from a traditional tattoo artist's song, as quoted on pbs.org, "Skin Stories: The Art and Culture of Polynesian Tattoo," 2003
Benjamin Franklin: "I believe that if we are to form a new country, we cannot be a country that appears war-hungry and violent to the rest of the world. However, we also cannot be a country that appears weak and unwilling to fight, to the rest of the world. So, what if we form a country that appears to want both."
It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. ~Bill Watterson
A kiss seals two souls for a moment in time. ~Levende Waters
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is - a vice? ~Friedrich Nietzsche, alluding to the proverb "Idleness is the beginning of all vices"