I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out. ~Lee Grant
It is fear that first brought gods into the world. ~Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. ~John Gardner
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ~Charles Kingsley
Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you. ~Norman Vincent Peale
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. ~Elbert Hubbard
Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your manuscript?" Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?" ~Fran Lebowitz
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. ~William G. McAdoo
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. ~George Herbert
Just because the power is out doesn't mean we unplug the constitution. ~Law and Order, "Darkness"
It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance. ~Elizabeth Taylor
If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute. ~Thomas Paine
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. ~Dave Barry
Our birth is nothing but our death begun. ~Edward Young, Night Thoughts
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~J.G. Holland
I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot. ~Kate Bush
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~Spanish Proverb
It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling. ~Mark Twain
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. ~James Allen
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. ~Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. ~William Hazlitt, On the Clerical Character, 1819
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