I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock. ~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ~Michel de Montaigne
Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, it is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver. ~Jack Handey
Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat. ~Oxford Union Society, London, Rule 46
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ~Robert Frost, "The Figure a Poem Makes," Collected Poems of Robert Frost, 1939
One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings. ~Franklin Thomas
Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people. ~Steve Busby, in Washington Post, 8 July 1974
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. ~E.M. Forster
A wee child toddling in a wonder world.... I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan. ~Zitkala-Sa
We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution. ~John F. Kennedy
But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God. ~Author Unknown
A watched child never learns. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I am of the Buddhists. The great Teacher comes periodically. He is followed by pupils who corrupt the texts and then a new Buddha must be born to re�stablish the truth. ~Martin H. Fischer
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. ~St. Augustine
It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown. ~Author Unknown
Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord.
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. ~Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams
My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life." ~Jim Fox
Billy Crystal: "Yeah, but what's that one thing?"
It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears. ~Ovid
Ability is of little account without opportunity. ~Napoleon
If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote? ~Bertrand Russell
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. ~Felix Cohen
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