"I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know." ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 24, spoken by the character Mr. Antolini
After a night in fight club, everything in the real world gets the volume turned down. Nothing can piss you off. Your word is law, and if other people break that law or question you, even that doesn't piss you off. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. ~Robert Frost
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. ~Lord Chesterfield
Is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ~T.S. Eliot
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. ~Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
This statesman was no conqueror, but his superiority consisted in his moral conquest; this President vanquished no foreign people, and his superiority lay in his self-constraint; this excellent judge of human nature cast a spell over nobody, yet is more fascinating than the shining victors of history. ~Emil Ludwig
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ~Thomas Alva Edison
They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable. ~Joan McIntosh
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ~John Maynard Keynes
Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. ~Edgar Degas
Curlers do it hard. ~Saying of the sport
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987
My sons think it's a fireman's pole, but I forgot to cut a hole through the ground into the kitchen. ~Pamela Anderson
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. ~Carl Sagan
Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us? ~Annita Manning
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. ~William James
What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself. ~Lewis Mumford, "Orientation to Life," The Conduct of Life, 1951
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ~Albert Einstein
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