One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
Time is the only thief we can't get justice against. ~Astrid Alauda
Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying. ~Lucy Maud Montgomery
In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. ~Thomas Jefferson
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. ~Mark Twain
Automobiles are not ferocious.... it is man who is to be feared. ~Robbins B. Stoeckel
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There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. ~James Russell Lowell
All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out. ~A.J.P. Taylor
While on a ladder, never step back to admire your work. ~Author Unknown
It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I'm just a kid. I don't need that kind of trouble. ~Kenny, age 7, when asked if it's better to be single or married
What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it - like a secret vice. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. ~Marie Stopes
This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke. ~Jane Grigson
Support your right to arm bears. ~Cleveland Amory (Thank you, Leslie.)
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. ~Ovid
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. ~Albert Einstein
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. ~Dan Greenburg
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. ~Sallust
No woman wants to see herself too clearly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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