Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention. ~Cornelia Otis Skinner, attributed
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. ~Seneca
One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style. ~Author Unknown
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. ~Edgar Degas
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be. ~Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money. ~Author Unknown
History balances the frustration of "how far we have to go" with the satisfaction of "how far we have come." It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time. ~Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. ~Adlai E. Stevenson
Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system. ~Bob Enyart
A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job. ~Caroline Bird
It's a good idea to begin at the bottom in everything except in learning to swim. ~Author Unknown
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. ~Eugene O'Neill, The Great God Brown, 1926
Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ~George Santayana
We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived. ~June Jordan
Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting. ~Billy Wilder
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing is a struggle against silence. ~Carlos Fuentes
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. ~Honore de Balzac
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~Emily Dickinson
As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. ~Anton Chekov
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