Sometimes I get the feeling the aspirin companies are sponsoring my headaches. ~Terri Guillemets
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. ~Charles de Gaulle, War Memoirs, 1960
Cats speak a subtle language in which few sounds carry many meanings, depending on how they are sung or purred. "Mnrhnh" means comfortable soft chairs. It also means fish. It means genial companionship... and the absence of dogs. ~Val Schaffner
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ~Homer
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. ~Guy Almes
Mother-in-law: a woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. ~Author Unknown
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? ~Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1857
If something smells fishy, the neurotic knows everything is going just right. ~Terri Guillemets
Today, there are three kinds of people: the have's, the have-not's, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have's. ~Earl Wilson
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past? ~John Leonard
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau
We are the prisoners of history. Or are we? ~Robert Penn Warren, Segregation
A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it. ~Curtis Billings
The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all. ~Milton Mayer
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia. ~Charles Schulz
Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery
In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men. ~Mary Renault
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ~Doug Larson
The ear of jealousy heareth all things. ~The Bible (Apocrypha), Wisdom of Solomon 1:10
We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament. ~J. Ramsay MacDonald We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. ~Albert Einstein
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. ~Charles Baudelaire
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