Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things. ~Aldous Huxley, "Wordsworth in the Tropics"
For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch. ~Terri Guillemets
Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. ~Tim McMahon
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world. ~B.K.S. Iyengar
Hope is grief's best music. ~Author Unknown
Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints. ~Oswald Chambers
Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art. ~Martin H. Fischer
The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother - and they'll settle for a puppy every time. ~Winston Pendelton
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. ~Fanny Fern
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ~John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin. ~Jay Leno
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? ~Author Unknown
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ~Ambrose Bierce
Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw
Sometimes you just have to bow to the absurd. ~Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Up the Long Ladder," Jean-Luc Picard, Stardate 42823.2
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. ~William Shenstone
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. ~G.K. Chesterton
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. ~Ed Howe
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not a sin - just stupid.) ~Robert A. Heinlein
The girls that are always easy on the eyes are never easy on the heart. ~Author Unknown
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