There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that. ~Steve Martin There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing? ~Peter Andrews
Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge. ~Benjamin Jowett
The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory. ~Rene Dubos, The Wooing of Earth, 1980
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. ~D.H. Lawrence
One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ~Odell Shepherd
If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!" ~Lemony Snicket
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? referring to cliff dwellings
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past? ~John Leonard
Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin
A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor. ~August Bier
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. ~William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ~Aldous Huxley
Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men. ~Fay Weldon
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. ~William Feather
Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar. ~Willa Sibert Cather
I believe in God; I just don't trust anyone who works for him. ~Author Unknown
Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me? ~Albert Schweitzer Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me? ~Albert Schweitzer
Spirituality is... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself. ~Author Unknown
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. ~John Burroughs
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than. ~Oscar Holmolka
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. ~Karl Kraus
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. ~Oscar Wilde
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