The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins. ~Soren Kierkegaard
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. ~Carl Sandburg, New York Times, 13 February 1959
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When Hell freezes over, I'll play hockey there too. ~Author Unknown
Flying is the second best thrill to cheerleaders; being caught is the first. ~Author Unknown
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. ~Washington Irving, adapted from a verse in the Bible
We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings. ~Erma Bombeck
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Alexander Pope, in Swift, Miscellanies
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. ~C.C. Colton
I think war might be God's way of teaching us geography. ~Paul Rodriguez
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. ~Henry S. Haskins
A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz. ~Humphrey Bogart
The same media people that claim violence on TV doesn't influence people, are perfectly willing to sell you advertising time. ~Author Unknown
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. ~Henrik Tikkanen Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. ~Henrik Tikkanen
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence." ~Holbrook Jackson
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. ~E.L. Doctorow
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey
The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. ~Julien Offroy de la Mettrie, L'Homme Machine
And the crazy part of it was even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and Shaw, even if you studied history or zoology or physics and hoped to spend your life pursuing some difficult and challenging career, you still had a mind full of all the soupy longings that every high-school girl was awash in... underneath it, all you longed to be was annihilated by love, to be swept off your feet, to be filled up by a giant prick spouting sperm, soapsuds, silk and satins and, of course, money. ~Erica Jong
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage. ~George Washington
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeits of our own behaviour) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars: as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treacherous by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star! ~William Shakespeare
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