The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ~John Barrymore
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk. ~H.L. Mencken, Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebook, 1956
Cold beer and pizza are spiritual. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com
A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. ~Andre Maurois
For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed. ~Elizabeth Zimmerman
There is more difference within the sexes than between them. ~Ivy Compton-Burnett, Mother and Son
If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check. ~Dan Quayle, attributed
~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, much later adapted to "So shines a good deed in a weary world" by David Seltzer for the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Thanks Aidan!)
I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: "Oh well," and I went back to smoking again, and that was better. ~Benny Hill
Pitchers, like poets, are born not made. ~Cy Young
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in the horse as he is leaping. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
There may be dust in my house but there isn't any on me. ~Author Unknown
Cats conspire to keep us at arm's length. ~Frank Perkins
Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time you wake up you'll feel so good, you'll be able to start looking for a new job. ~Jay Leno
What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. ~Samuel Johnson
The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. ~William Gass, "Habitations of the Word," Kenyon Review, October 1984
I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. ~Oscar Wilde
Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight. ~William McFee, Casuals of the Sea, 1916
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. ~Samuel Johnson
Music is an outburst of the soul. ~Frederick Delius
Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little. ~Thomas Aloysius Dorgan
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? ~Freeman Dyson, quoted in The Meaning of Life, compiled by Hugh S. Moorhead You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ~Mary Manin Morrissey
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