The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess. ~Chris Cobbs
A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time. ~Laurence Sterne
Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. ~Charles Dickens
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ~Emile Zola
If men had more up top we'd need less up front. ~Jaci Stephen
It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. ~"Homer Simpson," from the television show The Simpsons
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter. ~James T. Adams
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. ~E.M. Cioran
If you think it's tough being a firefighter, try being a firefighter's wife. ~Author Unknown
Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers. ~Nicholas Eberstadt, The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and Misrule
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. ~Jacqueline Schiff
Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Trigonometry is a sine of the times. ~Author Unknown
You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend. ~Michael Piller & Michael Wagner, Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Evolution," Dr. Paul Stubbs to Wesley Crusher, original airdate 25 September 1989, stardate 43,125.8 You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend. ~Michael Piller and Michael Wagner, Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Evolution," Dr. Paul Stubbs to Wesley Crusher, original airdate 25 September 1989, stardate 43,125.8
A blessed companion is a book, - a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,... a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own. ~Douglas Jerrold
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A different language is a different vision of life. ~Federico Fellini
Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ~James Joyce
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog. ~Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord
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