Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. ~Henry David Thoreau
Forbidden things have a secret charm. ~Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. ~Socrates
There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. ~Elizabeth Lawrence
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate! ~William James
One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others. ~Moliere
If I'm trying to sleep, the ideas won't stop. If I'm trying to write, there appears a barren nothingness. ~Carrie Latet
As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens. ~Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping
Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank? ~Walt Whitman Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. ~H.L. Mencken
Sisters may share the same mother and father but appear to come from different families. ~Author Unknown
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. ~Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues, 30 August 1941 What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. ~Archibald MacLeish, "The Premise of Meaning," American Scholar, 5 June 1972
Babies are such a nice way to start people. ~Don Herrold
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. ~Arthur Wing Pinero, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 1893
After a few years of marriage, a man can look right at a woman without seeing her - and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him. ~Helen Rowland
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. ~William Hazlitt
We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby. ~Elizabeth Janeway
It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans. ~Robert Lynd
The enemy of your enemy is your friend. ~Proverb
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. ~Thomas Fuller
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. ~Isadora Duncan
Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ~Proverb
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. ~George Bernard Shaw
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. ~George Bernard Shaw