Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination. ~Author Unknown
What a type of happy family is the family of the sun! with what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another! ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs. ~Joan Welsh
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery. ~Martha Graham
Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for - annually, not oftener - if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man's side, consequently on the Lord's side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments. ~Mark Twain
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother. ~Voltaire
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. ~Thomas Paine
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~Spanish Proverb
The United States has a system of taxation by confession. ~Hugo Black
Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. ~Catherine O'Hara
Johnny: "Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday."
A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. ~S.N. Behrman
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ~Washington Irving
Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. ~G.K. Chesterton
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A poem begins with a lump in the throat. ~Robert Frost
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. ~Christopher Isherwood
If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire. ~Author Unknown
Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at the bowling alley. ~Author Unknown
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ~Henry Louis Mencken, "Sententiae," This and That: A Mencken Chrestomathy, 1948
A Foreign Secretary is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion. ~Harold MacMillan
Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it. ~Author Unknown
The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn't know won't hurt him. ~Leo J. Burke
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