Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ~Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, 1977
Oaths are but words, and words but wind. ~Samuel Butler (1612-1680), Hudribas
People don't change. Only their costumes do. ~Gene Moore
A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. ~Samuel Grafton
Life is a long lesson in humility. ~James M. Barrie
There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object. ~Charlotte Dacre, The Passions, 1811
We all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much. ~John Muir, Scribner's Monthly, November 1878
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. ~Pablo Picasso
Backpacking: An extended form of hiking in which people carry double the amount of gear they need for half the distance they planned to go in twice the time it should take. ~Author Unknown
War makes thieves and peace hangs them. ~George Herbert
Give me the fresh air, a beautiful partner, and a nice round of golf, and you can keep the fresh air and the round of golf. ~Jack Benny
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. ~Tehyi Hsieh
He who does not know how to believe, should not know. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill. ~William Sharp, The Lonely Hunter
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. ~Author Unknown
Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents. ~William Osler
"Children, don't speak so coarsely," said Mr. Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library. ~Robertson Davies, Tempest Tost
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern. ~Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, Truth and Opinion
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
I want a priest, a rabbi, and a Protestant clergyman. I want to hedge my bets. ~Wilson Mizner
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