I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. ~Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Our Girls"
Count ballots, not judges. ~Author Unknown
We get lost in a fog of abstractions and easily forget that man is a bloodhound sniffing out the real. ~Robert C. Pollock
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ~Frank Herbert
I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right. ~Ben Crenshaw
The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them. ~Author Unknown
It is an ironic fact that while half the world's population is dying as a result of diseases of poverty (largely starvation and infection) the other half is succumbing to diseases of affluence. ~Malcolm Carruthers
Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night. ~Chuck Palahniuk
The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage. ~Aeschylus, The Suppliant Maidens
Light travels faster than sound. That's why most people seem bright until you hear them speak. ~Author Unknown
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part. ~Marcel Proust, The Fugitive, Remembrance of Things Past, 1925
The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us. ~Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Biodynamics
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11, spoken by the character Atticus
People will buy anything that is one to a customer. ~Sinclair Lewis
Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds. ~Author Unknown
As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. ~Virginia Woolf
What is it that we all believe in that we cannot see or hear or feel or taste or smell - this invisible thing that heals all sorrows, reveals all lies and renews all hope? What is it that has always been and always will be, from whose bosom we all came and to which we will all return? Most call it Time. A few realize that it is God. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals. ~Don Schrader
My body is here, but my mind has already teed off. ~Author Unknown
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration. ~Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ~Thomas Jefferson
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