A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. ~Emily Dickinson
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card. ~Edgar A. Shoaff
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid. ~Jules Feiffer
By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant. ~Phyllis Diller
What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
The troubles of adolescence eventually all go away - it's just like a really long, bad cold. ~Dawn Ruelas
Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches. ~Proverbs 24:3
You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation. ~Johnnetta Cole
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ~Texas Guinan
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. ~George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States, 1921
If you aren't crashing, you aren't skiing. ~Author Unknown
We're all hookers. What matters is dignity. ~Mike Farren
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. ~CoCo Chanel
O! for a horse with wings! ~William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertiser's won't object to. ~Helen Swaffer
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. ~Gertrude Stein
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ~Robert Frost
To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark. ~Roland Barthes
Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted. ~Paul Pearshall
Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts. ~Steve Prefontaine
A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. ~Karl Kraus
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Second Series, 1844
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