It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 1
History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory. ~Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences
The deed is everything, the glory naught. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Inge
It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God. ~Jean Ingelow
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. ~Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism
It's important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle. ~Author Unknown
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. ~Miles Franklin
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. ~Doris Lessing
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. ~A. Whitney Brown
Order marches with weighty and measured strides; disorder is always in a hurry. ~Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ~Frank Herbert
People see God every day, they just don't recognize him. ~Pearl Bailey
The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby's grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida. ~Dave Barry
The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them. ~James Fallows
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius. ~Harold Marston Morse
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. ~Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
Painting is silent poetry. ~Plutarch, Moralia: How to Study Poetry
When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love. ~Terri Guillemets
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. ~William Lloyd Garrison
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~Grandma Moses
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