Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire. ~Larry Brown
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. ~Rita Rudner
Dogs eat. Cats dine. ~Ann Taylor
The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. ~Ann Landers
The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the end of a long and fatiguing trip for which vigorous good health is necessary. Practically speaking, this means that no one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. ~Garrett Hardin, The Ecologist, February 1974
In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. ~Stephane Mallarme
Passage: a usually brief portion of a written work or speech that is relevant to a point under discussion or noteworthy for content or style.
How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds. ~George Jean Nathan
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. ~Napoleon
O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!
Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best. ~Woody Allen
An intellectual is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger. ~John Chesson
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. ~Gene Perret
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ~Annie Dillard
I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
A smile can brighten the darkest day. ~Author Unknown
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ~Homer
I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105. ~Bob Hope
History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force. ~Frederick Maurice Powicke, History, Freedom & Religion
Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. ~Victor Hugo
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