We swim because we are too sexy for a sport that requires clothes. ~Author Unknown
Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ~Thomas Szasz
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Alexander Pope, in Swift, Miscellanies
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. ~Quentin Crisp
Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605
Hunger makes a thief of any man. ~Pearl S. Buck, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. ~Jennifer Yane
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born. ~Pearl S. Buck The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be. ~Henry David Thoreau
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. ~Adlai Stevenson
We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1963
Optimists are nostalgic about the future. ~Chicago Tribune
Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul - and you answer. ~Terri Guillemets
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. ~Raymond Chandler
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. ~Ikkyu Sojun
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. ~Colleen McCullough
That guy has muscles in places most people don't have places. ~Bucky Waters, on Tom Hammonds
To weep is to make less the depth of grief. ~William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth
Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin. ~Robert A. Heinlein
At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly equivalent to herding cats. ~The Washington Post Magazine, 9 June 1985
Life is short but there is always time for courtesy. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Social Aims
We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever. ~Vince McKewin, from the movie The Replacements
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. ~Stewart Alsop
He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs. ~Torvald Gahlin
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