Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. ~Edmond & Jules de Goncourt
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ~J.D. Salinger
Horses and children, I often think, have a lot of the good sense there is in the world. ~Josephine Demott Robinson
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil. ~Heywood Broun
Entire new continents can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the Department of Motor Vehicles. ~Dave Barry, Dave Barry in Cyberspace
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. ~John F. Kennedy
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs. ~Henry Ward Beecher
With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ~Arthur Schopenhauer
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? ~Woody Allen, "Selections from the Allen Notebooks," Without Feathers, 1975
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. ~Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain, 1922
I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ~Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991
God made death so we'd know when to stop. ~Steven Stiles
For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections. ~Peace Pilgrim
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859
Don't water your weeds. ~Proverb
I'm not cheap, but I am on special this week. ~Author Unknown
Misery is a communicable disease. ~Martha Graham
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ~Paul Eldridge
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~Robert Fulghum
There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt. ~Author Unknown
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. ~Syrus
The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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