Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. ~Frank A. Clark
A weed is but an unloved flower. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ~G.C. Lichtenberg
Some things become so completely our own that we forget them. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
History is herstory too. ~Author Unknown
When a man goes on a date he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows. ~Frederike Ryder
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ~Maya Angelou, PBS, 28 March 1988
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away; and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers. ~Charles Kingsley
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Saying
The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over. ~Artemus Ward
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. ~Carol Shields
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development. Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development. ~Author Unknown
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. ~Jacqueline Schiff
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ~Quoted by Francis Bacon, Apothegm
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ~Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964
A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. ~Author Unknown
A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it. ~John Loengard, "Pictures Under Discussion"
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. ~Germaine Greer
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ~James Baldwin
The populist authoritarianism that is the downside of political correctness means that anyone, sometimes it seems like everyone, can proclaim their grief and have it acknowledged. The victim culture, every sufferer grasping for their own Holocaust, ensures that anyone who feels offended can call for moderation, for dilution, and in the end, as is all too often the case, for censorship. And censorship, that by-product of fear - stemming as it does not from some positive agenda, but from the desire to escape our own terrors and superstitions by imposing them on others - must surely be resisted. ~Jonathon Green, "Did You Say 'Offensive?'," as posted on wordwizard.com The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for. ~Jane Austen
Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends. ~Deborah Moggach
The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. ~Andy Warhol
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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