A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops. ~Oscar Wilde
To control your hormones is to control your life. ~Barry Sears
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ~Plato, Ion
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Goethe Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
All know the way; few actually walk it. ~Bodhidharma
The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels. ~Benjamin Disraeli
The neurotic's mountain and molehill are equivalent in size. ~Terri Guillemets
Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. ~Author Unknown
Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. ~Martin Fowler
Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs. ~Author Unknown
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all. ~Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1950
"Know thyself?" If I knew myself, I'd run away. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. ~Samuel Johnson
Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have! ~Don A. Dillman, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, January 1977
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time. ~George Bernard Shaw Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
Pitchers, like poets, are born not made. ~Cy Young
Each year it seems to take less time to fly across the ocean and longer to drive to work. ~Author Unknown
Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600