When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse. ~Lord Byron
After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw
We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves? ~Morris Adler
Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice. ~Robert Charles Whitehead
The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't; it just keeps you from enjoying it. ~Salvador de Madariaga
Never love a wild thing.... He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up.... If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore
The sun lay like a friendly arm across her shoulder. ~Margorie Kinnan Rawlings, South Moon Under
If horses can't eat it, I won't play on it. ~Dick Allen
Inking without a plan gives Booth freedom to explore the desires of those seated in his chair, he says, to feed off their energy, allowing his clients' demons to help guide the needle. ~Joshua Lipton, about tattoo artist Paul Booth, "Bad Skin," Rolling Stone, 28 March 2002
Skipping is to fly like an angel. ~Opal Montagne
For we walk by faith, not by sight. ~II Corinthians 5:7
We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go. ~Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters, 1913
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers... ~Heinrich Hertz
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. ~Mark Twain
Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires." ~John McSherry
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. ~Walter Lippmann
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory. ~Albert Schweitzer
Several excuses are always less convincing than one. ~Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point
Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind. ~Mike Harding, The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac, 1981
For several moments both of us were the unconscious and cosmic toys of our own deception. ~"The Mission," Chapter 4
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ~Paul Sweeney
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