Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ~Elbert Hubbard
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ~Theodore Roosevelt
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken. ~Idries Shah
A true scrapbook addict is one who stages photographs to match paper she likes. ~Author Unknown
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. ~Douglas Adams
The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. ~Margaret Carty
I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to hell? ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Homer Simpson
Angels sail back to God on the sea of joy. ~Terri Guillemets
Time is the wisest counsellor of all. ~Pericles
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
New York, the nation's thyroid gland. ~Christopher Morley, Shore Leave
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. ~Fulton Oursler
My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe. ~Faye Moskowitz
The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate. ~Bern Williams
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. ~Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889
Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1750
Truely man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men. ~Leonardo da Vinci
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~William James Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~William James
When my heart is heavy, the sun helps make it light. ~Astrid Alauda
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. ~Hart Crane
Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt. ~Edna Ferber, Show Boat, 1926
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. ~D.H. Lawrence
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