If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. ~Betty Reese
I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve! ~Catharine M. Sedgwick
Never have children, only grandchildren. ~Gore Vidal
Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value. ~Ralph Nader
Civilization is what makes you sick. ~Paul Gauguin
What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal. ~Jerome Fleishman
First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. ~Leon Blum
In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. ~Mark Twain
The mad are happy, the sane ignorant; those of us stuck on the sane side of madness or the mad fringe of sanity are in a purgatorial cage. ~Anonymous
Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. ~Mary Pickford
Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds. ~Author Unknown
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out. ~Bob Moawad Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. ~Henry Ford
Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies." ~Author Unknown
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. ~Henry Miller
If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish. ~Charles Dickens
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. ~Herman Wouk
It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation. ~Author Unknown
A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz. ~Humphrey Bogart
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use. ~Emily Post
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. ~T.S. Eliot
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