I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. ~Maya Angelou
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. ~Lewis Thomas
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory. ~Albert Schweitzer
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~Italian Proverb
Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything. ~William Blissett
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. ~Walter Lippmann
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.... ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. ~P.J. O'Rourke
I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged to reply to them. ~Washington Irving
Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. ~Henry David Thoreau
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. ~William Faulkner
Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. ~George Lancaster Spalding Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. ~George Lancaster Spalding
Oratio directa: Latin, the language of anyone quoted without change in its form, i.e. a direct quote.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ~George Santayana
To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship. ~Domenico Cieri Estrada
We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated. ~Walter Lippmann
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. ~Ernest Newman
When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom - freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. ~Eric Hoffer
The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. ~Thomas Carlyle
Count ballots, not judges. ~Author Unknown
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? ~Katherine Mansfield
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too. ~Anton Chekhov, Ivanov
Writing the first 90 percent of a computer program takes 90 percent of the time. The remaining ten percent also takes 90 percent of the time and the final touches also take 90 percent of the time. ~N.J. Rubenking
Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband. ~Kin Hubbard
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