When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. ~Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1901, translated by Alfred Sutro
Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. ~George Eliot
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. ~Ecclesiastes 9:10
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate. ~Bern Williams
Success has made failures of many men. ~Cindy Adams
Of those who say nothing, few are silent. ~Thomas Neiel
I thought he was a young man of promise; but it appears he was a young man of promises. ~Author Unknown
People haven't time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard
The stars are the street lights of eternity. ~Author Unknown
Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine. ~Peter Mere Latham
Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9
A perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility. ~Billie Jean King, about tennis
Wednesdays are like Mondays in the middle of the week! ~Lee Fox Williams
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. ~Henri Cartier Bresson
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. ~Ingrid Newkirk
Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. ~Alan Coren, The Sanity Inspector, 1974
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor. ~Margo Kaufman
A man may be born a jackass; but it is his business if he makes himself a double one. ~Martin H. Fischer
We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems. ~Janet Holmes � Court
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ~Albert Einstein
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Author Unknown
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