It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859
The best time to make friends is before you need them. ~Ethel Barrymore
I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant. ~Paul Newman
Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body? ~Thomas Hardy
It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. ~Gloria Steinem
We need a new law that owners of SUVs are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil. ~Jello Biafra, quoted in The Guardian, 3 November 2007
In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty. ~Imbesi's Conservation of Filth Law
Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
There are too many people, and too few human beings. ~Robert Zend
People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858 People who rely most on God rely least on themselves. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays
A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ~Jean Paul Richter
...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul - kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman. ~Alexander Berkman, What Is Communist Anarchism?
Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. ~Abe Lemons
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. ~Tom Brokaw
Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one. ~Josh Billings
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. ~Eric Schmidt
Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance. ~Peter Saint James
If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas? ~Don Meredith
When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! ~Ted Grant
You know you live in Phoenix when the four seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and are you freakin' kidding me?! ~Author Unknown
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious. ~Paul Valery, Regards sur le Monde Actuel
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