All diseases run into one, old age. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. ~Denis Waitely
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. ~William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1605
In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried. ~Germaine Greer In most betting shops you will see three windows marked "Bet Here," but only one window with the legend "Pay Out." ~Jeffrey Bernard
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. ~Andre Gide, Nourritures Terrestres
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~Confucius
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. ~Friederich Nietzsche
From every book invisible threads reach out to other books; and as the mind comes to use and control those threads the whole panorama of the world's life, past and present, becomes constantly more varied and interesting, while at the same time the mind's own powers of reflection and judgment are exercised and strengthened. ~Helen E. Haines
No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't. ~Don Rittner
We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1963
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
Kids today, all they talk about is big air. I say, stay on the mountain, that's where the action is. If you want big air, pull my finger. ~Smooth Johnson
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. ~Jean Kerr, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957
People need to understand that when they're deciding between breastmilk and formula, they're not deciding between Coke and Pepsi.... They're choosing between a live, pure substance and a dead substance made with the cheapest oils available. ~Chele Marmet
Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life. ~Kathleen Norris
Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. ~Author Unknown
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. ~Eric Hoffer
Without evil there could be no good, so it must be good to be evil sometimes. ~Satan, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, 1999, written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, & Pam Brady
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. ~John Acton
How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink? ~Author Unknown
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. ~Arthur Goldberg
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ~George Smith Patton
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. ~Glenn Turner
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