If people were meant to pop out of bed, we'd all sleep in toasters. ~Author unknown, attributed to Jim Davis
After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw
These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow. ~Sam Snead
If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. ~William James
I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet. ~Tommy Docherty, 1980
Who has not sat, afraid, before his own heart's curtain? ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, "The Fourth Elegy," translated from German by Albert Ernest Flemming
Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. ~Rachel Carson
And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind. ~Dave Barry
There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. ~James Thurber
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. ~Ansel Adams
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ~G.K. Chesterton
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ~Winston Churchill
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. ~Dodie Smith, I Capture The Castle Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. ~Dodie Smith, I Capture The Castle Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied. ~Edward Cheyfitz
Some defeats are more triumphant than victories. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life. ~Benjamin Franklin Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. ~Ellen Goodman
When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian. ~Shailer Mathews, The Spiritual Interpretation of History
To me, horses and freedom are synonymous. ~Veryl Goodnight
I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. ~Richard Rumbold, 1685
Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous. ~Lord Rosebery
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. ~William Shenstone
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. ~A.W. Tozer
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