The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. ~Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957
A primary role of the father is to teach the baby that love and comfort are not necessarily associated with food. ~Author Unknown
The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation. ~James Cook, 1779
Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump. The only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies. ~R. Owens
Homecoming means more than winning a competition or a sporting event. It provides an opportunity for every component of the university to come together to celebrate as a whole. ~Author Unknown
Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. ~H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, 1920
I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since. ~Arturo Toscanini
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, "Age and Death," Afterthoughts, 1931
Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Just because you make mistakes doesn't mean you are one. ~Author Unknown
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. ~George Smith Patton
A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it. ~Truman Capote
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. ~James C. Dobson
I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees. ~Williston Fish, "A Last Will," 1898
A number of moralists condemn lotteries and refuse to see anything noble in the passion of the ordinary gambler. They judge gambling as some atheists judge religion, by its excesses. ~Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, 1832
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. ~Arthur Miller
Mathematics is the only good metaphysics. ~William Thomson Baron Kelvin of Largs
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Cats come and go without ever leaving. ~Martha Curtis
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