The funny thing about firemen is, night and day, they are always firemen. ~Gregory Widen, Backdraft
Skipping is the walk of joy. ~Jessi Lane Adams
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. ~Theodore Dreiser, 1900
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. ~Author Unknown
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ~Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades, 1947
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. ~Samuel Butler
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. ~Andre Gide
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. ~Gandhi
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. ~Ovid
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
Name is a fence and within it you are nameless. ~Samuli Paronen
Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. ~Domenico Cieri Estrada
Your Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting. ~Scott Adams
Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit. ~Robert Brault, 1973, www.robertbrault.com
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. ~Abraham Lincoln
I got rid of my teeth at a young age because I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them. ~Dana Snyder
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. ~Carl Schurz, address, Faneuil Hall, Boston, 1859
The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~Thomas Edison The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~Thomas Edison
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well. ~Ivan Illich, Energy and Equity, 1974
You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens. ~Stephen King, The Stand
The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows. ~Paul A. Samuelson, Newsweek, 12 June 1967
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