Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing. ~Herman Broch
The body never lies. ~Martha Graham
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. ~Doug Larson
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself! ~Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. ~Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 1964
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ~P.J. O'Rourke
A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. ~Thomas ? Kempis
When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now. ~Edie Cantor
Sunshine is my quest. ~Winston Churchill
You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do. ~David Packard
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. ~Elbert Hubbard
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. ~Thomas A. Edison
Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah! there is the sting of life. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. ~Henry Van Dyke
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything. She can lead in some things. The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations. ~Francis John McConnell
Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed. ~Erma Bombeck
Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own. ~Alistair Cooke
Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly. ~Sally Kempton
All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. ~William Mathews
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. ~Alex Levine
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