To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Chastity: The most unnatural of the sexual perversions. ~Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza, 1936
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. ~Anais Nin
If your teeth are clenched and your fists are clenched, your lifespan is probably clenched. ~Terri Guillemets
You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. ~Jane Galvin Lewis
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Isn't it a violation of the Georgia sodomy law for the Supreme Court to have its head up its ass? ~Letter to Playboy magazine, February 1987
Uneven numbers are the gods' delight. ~Virgil, The Eclogues
There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. ~Winston Churchill
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky. ~Buddha
Four out of five dentists surveyed recommended playing hockey. ~Author Unknown
Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food. ~Sebastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort, Maximes
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death. ~Charles Sanders Peirce
We only part to meet again. ~John Gay
Untold suffering seldom is. ~Franklin P. Jones
Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect. ~Chinese Proverb
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. ~Dan Greenburg
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses. ~Thomas Carlyle, "Count Cagliostro," 1833
Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet. ~Daniel Webster
It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home. ~Author Unknown
Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever. ~David Letterman
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know. ~William R. Inge
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace. ~Saint Theresa of Lisieux
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