Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face. ~VP Pappy
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ~Haim Ginott
The poor are poor because the rich are rich. ~Author Unknown
We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart? ~Author Unknown We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ~William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922
The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation. ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913
Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together. ~Terri Guillemets
I cannot help it, - in spite of myself, infinity torments me. ~Alfred de Musset, L'Espoir en Dieu
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. ~Joseph Addison
Trumpets! Lightnings! The earth trembles! But into the Virgin's womb thou didst descent with noiseless tread. ~Agathias Scholasticus
History is the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity. ~Robert S. Lynd
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. ~George Bernard Shaw
I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception, but religious wars have been fought over such. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung. ~Tagore
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. ~John Gardner
There is just one life for each of us: our own. ~Euripides
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. ~Jeff Valdez
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1833
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. ~T.S. Eliot
Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot. ~Kate Bush
Angels fly at light speed, because they are servants of the Light. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. ~Louis A. Berman
Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys. ~From the television show King of Queens, spoken by the character Doug Heffernan
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