Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. ~Betty Bender
Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank? ~Walt Whitman Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. ~H.L. Mencken
The idea is to die young as late as possible. ~Ashley Montagu The idea is to die young as late as possible. ~Ashley Montagu
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. ~Frank A. Clark
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity. ~Bill Veeck
Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them. ~Mark Goulston, Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior, 1996
We are not accountable for the sins of Adam. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
Beyond my body my veins are invisible. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way. ~Dr. Seuss
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed. ~Margaret Mead
Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me. ~Sam Abbel
The rule in the women's colleges was that after 7 p.m. all men were beasts. Up until 7 p.m. they were all angels, and the girls simply had to learn to live with that routine and practise love in the afternoon. ~Harry G. Johnson
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. ~Lord Byron
The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. ~Vera Brittain, 1964
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ~John Muir
You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. ~The Epic of Gilgamesh
What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? ~Erma Bombeck, "No One Diets on Thanksgiving," 26 November 1981
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. ~Mae West
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. ~Alice Kahn
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. ~Albert Einstein, "What I Believe," Forum and Century, 1930
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ~Bern Williams
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ~G.K. Chesterton
When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? ~Russell Hoban
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. ~Sydney Smith
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