God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. ~Alfred Jarry, Gestes et Opinions du Docteur Faustroll Pataphysicien, 1911
In music the passions enjoy themselves. ~Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful. ~Doug Henning
Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. ~Robert Orben
The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out. ~Herbert Spencer
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning? ~Frank N. Ikard, North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, Houston, March 1968
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. ~George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant, 1950
Be sincere; be brief; be seated. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt, on speechmaking
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? ~Author Unknown
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
Even the gods love jokes. ~Plato
Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. ~Lord Northcliffe
Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Whether he likes it or not, a man�s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life. ~Anthony Holden
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. ~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. ~George Eliot
You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate. ~Duke Snider, 1975
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras.... As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty. ~William A. Niskanen, "For a Less Responsive Government," Cato Policy Report, 1996
Silence is a sounding thing, to one who listens hungrily. ~Gwendolyn Bennett
Dogs eat. Cats dine. ~Ann Taylor
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. ~Irvin S. Cobb
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. ~Tennessee Williams, "The Rose Tattoo"
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