Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
When words leave off, music begins. ~Heinrich Heine
Living in this modern toxic world, we are all slowly being poisoned to death. ~Carrie Latet
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. ~Sholem Asch
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. ~Ambrose Bierce
History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another. ~Jacob Burckhardt
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. ~Charles Peguy
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. ~P.J. O'Rourke, A Parliament of Whores
In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash - at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance. ~Thomas Merton When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. ~William Shakespeare, King Lear
He struggles to exude authority. He furrows his brow, trying to look more sagacious, but he ends up looking as if he has indigestion. Appearing confused at his own speech, he seems like a first-grade actor in a production of James and the Giant Peach. Are his blinks Morse code for "Oh, man, don't let that teleprompter break?" ~Maureen Dowd, about George W. Bush
My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money. ~Joe Weinstein
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. ~Upton Sinclair
Imaginary gardens with real toads in them. ~Marianne Moore's definition of poetry, "Poetry," Collected Poems, 1951
Born to golf. Forced to work. ~Author Unknown
What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes. ~Timothy Virkkala
When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too. ~Linda Solegato
Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them. ~Sherwood Anderson
The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. ~Saul Bellow
As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose. ~Author Unknown
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. ~Maria Montessori
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