Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. ~Lois Wyse
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy. ~Rachel Carson
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where they is no river. ~Nikita Khrushchev
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. ~J.B. Priestley
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~Martin Buxbaum
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others.... One ever feels his twoness, - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ~W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. ~Lawrence Housman
Every mile is two in winter. ~George Herbert
When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part. ~Laurence Olivier
The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life. ~Carl Van Vechten
Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. ~From a Washington Post word contest
A man and his art are like a fool and his king. ~Corri Alius
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? referring to cliff dwellings
If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses. ~Louis Lecoin
Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ~Frank Leahy, Look, 10 January 1955
You know you're from Arizona when you feed your chickens ice cubes to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs. ~Local Saying
Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom. ~Aldous Huxley
Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself. ~Haniel Long
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. ~Johann von Goethe
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. ~Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820
We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it. ~Charles Dudley Warner
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