Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. ~Aaron Rose
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. ~Mae West
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. ~George Bernard Shaw
Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing. ~Michael Iapoce, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Boardroom
Fear prejudices courage. ~Abigail Charleson
History begins in novel and ends in essay. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. ~Red Auerbach
There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass. ~Neville Cardus, A Fourth Innings with Cardus, 1981
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush. ~Plautus
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. ~W. Beran Wolfe
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Author Unknown
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ~Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711
Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them. ~Horizon, "Electronic Frontier"
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. ~Author Unknown
Ask me why I keep on loving you when it's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you. ~Author Unknown
The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. ~Charles Evans Hughes
If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera. ~John Rich
Cycling is unique. No other sport lets you go like that - where there's only the bike left to hold you up. If you ran as hard, you'd fall over. Your legs wouldn't support you. ~Steve Johnson
It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia. ~Ted Koppel
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. ~Lesley P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953
Do I like my coffee black? There are other colors? ~Author Unknown
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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