The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. ~H.L. Mencken
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
New Year's Day is every man's birthday. ~Charles Lamb
In today already walks tomorrow. ~Friedrich von Schiller
If you believe in forever, then life is just a one-night stand. ~Righteous Brothers, "Rock & Roll Heaven"
In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body, only two inches taller. ~Steven Wright
Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential. ~R.D. Laing
An ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. ~Augustine Birrell
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. ~Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Homecoming means coming home to what is in your heart. ~Author Unknown
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. ~Dora Winifred Black Russell
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. ~Thomas Jefferson
Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards? ~Al Boliska
Your body is a temple, but how long can you live in the same house before you redecorate? ~Author Unknown
A lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it for himself. ~Lord Brougham
Do you think there's such a thing as airborne calories? Maybe they just jump directly onto your hips. ~Coupling, "Remember This," original airdate 14 October 2002, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Sally
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ~Jorge Luis Borges
Tea is a cup of life. ~Author Unknown
Unfortunately, it is also true that the age's interests often color the past with unhistoric hues. ~Wendell H. Stephenson
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