My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. ~Penn Jillett
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. ~Emily Dickinson
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. ~Author Unknown
Metaphor for the night sky: A trillion asterisks and no explanations. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff... had stumbled against the future. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on! ~Nikolai V. Gogol, Dead Souls, 1842, translated from Russian (above is combination of translations by Bernard Guildert Guerney, Richard Peaver, and Larisa Voloklonsky)
I've decided that perhaps I'm bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge. ~Paula Poundstone
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. ~William Feather
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama
Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. ~Ursula Le Guin
A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
In Beverley Hills, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into television shows. ~Woody Allen
...a "land of the free" that struggles under the incredible burden of limitless taxes and laws; the home of the "brave" who stay silent to keep their jobs and avoid scrutiny by the IRS or the police. ~Fred Woodworth, The Match!, No. 74
I quote others only in order the better to express myself. ~Michel De Montaigne
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle. ~Heinrich Heine
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. ~Thomas Fuller
It's important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle. ~Author Unknown
A fifth point concerning nonviolent resistance is that it avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. The nonviolent resister not only refuses to shoot his opponent but he also refuses to hate him. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
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