Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ~Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ~Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. ~Martin Luther
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ~E. Joseph Cossman
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1847
People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected? ~Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963
A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting. ~Terri Guillemets
What, exactly, is the Internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a "modem" can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo. ~Dave Barry
I would never use a long word where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who 'ligate' arteries. Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the bleeding just as well. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ~Martin H. Fischer
Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you. ~Edward Payson Rod
A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. ~Lloyd Alexander
The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot. ~J.B. Yeats
O, she is the antidote to desire. ~William Congreve, Love for Love, 1695
We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created. ~David Fincher, director of Fight Club, interview with Gavin Smith, "Inside Out," Film Comment, Sep/Oct 1999 (Thank you, sexbratsrocknroll.) We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet. ~Jeremy Rifkin, World Press Review, 30 December 1989
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. ~Lord Jeffrey
Seventy-five percent of our planet is water - can you swim? ~Author Unknown
Self-respect knows no considerations. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. ~Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ~Mark Twain
The idea is to die young as late as possible. ~Ashley Montagu The idea is to die young as late as possible. ~Ashley Montagu
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. ~Charles Horton Cooley
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