An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. ~James A. Michener, Space
A pair of substantial mammary glands have the advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned professor's brain in the art of compounding a nutritive fluid for infants. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. ~Josh Billings, His Complete Works, 1888
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. ~Oscar Wilde
Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf. ~Roy Blount, Jr.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ~John W. Gardner
Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. ~Charles Lamb, 1821
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. ~George Bernard Shaw
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ~Ambrose Bierce
Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. ~Eckhart
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. ~John Updike
If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time. ~Elbert Hubbard
In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a person who quotes great American novelists is anything but treacherous, and in general a man who says you needn't worry about money, or a man who smokes cigarettes, is somewhere in between. ~Lemony Snicket
Man - a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. ~Alexander Hamilton
I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. ~Peter De Vries, Let Me Count the Ways, 1965
Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children. ~Cindy Garner
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~Abraham Lincoln
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. ~Jean Paul Richter
If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage? ~Marquise de Sevigne
Good shot, bad luck, and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified. ~Virginia Graham, Say Please, 1949
If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. ~Domenico Cieri Estrada
God's mill grinds slow, but sure. ~George Herbert
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