Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. ~Marcel Proust
The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard. ~Sloan Wilson
From my point of view, a book is a literary prescription put up for the benefit of someone who needs it. ~S.M. Crothers
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. ~Louisa May Alcott
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ~Victor Borge
The dying Jesus is the evidence of God's anger toward sin; but the living Jesus is the proof of God's love and forgiveness. ~Lorenz Eifert The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties. ~Carol Matthau
Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin. ~Robert A. Heinlein
The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. ~Mencius, Book IV
When most people see an adult skipping they assume it must be on the way either to or from the asylum. ~Terri Guillemets
Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people. ~Elizabeth Berry
There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you. ~A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture
Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts. ~George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty, 1896
Restore your sanity - go skipping like crazy! ~Jessi Lane Adams
History, as long as it continues to happen, is always another chance. ~R. Jackson Wilson
Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun, 1859
You know you're a firefighter when you really think that rusty old hydrant looks good in the garden. ~Author Unknown
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. ~Lynn Lavner
Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something. ~Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1890
You can be sincere and still be stupid. ~Charles F. Kettering
All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport. ~Mike Royko, 1994
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., speech, Boston, 8 January 1897
Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. ~Thomas A. Edison
Congratulations: Babies Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees. ~Boris Marshalov
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