One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate
When words leave off, music begins. ~Heinrich Heine
I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops. ~Oscar Wilde
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ~Mark Twain
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. ~Henry Giles
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. ~Oscar Wilde
It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. ~W.H. Auden
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882
A woman needs two animals - the horse of her dreams and a jackass to pay for it. ~Author Unknown
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. ~Henry Ford
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. ~Howard Mumford Jones Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. ~John Gunther
Women are always beautiful. ~Ville Valo
Never be the first to arrive at a party or the last to go home, and never, ever be both. ~David Brown, quoted in Reader's Digest "Quotable Quotes," April 2004
The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away. ~Linus Pauling
A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life. ~Isadora James
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. ~Jim Bishop
The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy. ~Jerry Tarkanian The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. ~Henny Youngman
Good tattoos aren't cheap and cheap tattoos aren't good. ~Author Unknown
There is an itch in runners. ~Arnold Hano
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. ~Edgar W. Howe
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. ~Faith Baldwin
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. ~Mark Twain, attributed
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