Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports.... When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them. ~Gustave Flaubert, letter to wife Louise Colet, 15 August 1846
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. ~Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart
People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage. ~Doug Larson
This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought. ~Samuel Johnson
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ~Sigmund Freud
The bicycle will accomplish more for women's sensible dress than all the reform movements that have ever been waged. ~Author Unknown, from Demerarest's Family Magazine, 1895
More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. ~John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor
The chief reason why marriage is rarely a success is that it is contracted while the partners are insane. ~Joseph Collins
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. ~Edgar Watson Howe
If I had time for only two exercises, I would choose yoga and skipping. ~Astrid Alauda
Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. ~Author Unknown
Does breast milk come in chocolate? ~Author Unknown
There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie. ~Craig Claiborne
Working safely is like breathing - if you don't, you die. ~Author Unknown
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. ~P.D. James
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? ~George Bernard Shaw
Saw: an old, homely saying that is well worn by repetition.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. ~Elizabeth Bowen
If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma. ~Teresa Bloomingdale
Here's to matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented! ~Heinrich Heine
The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. ~Simone de Beauvoir
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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