The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other. ~Johnny Carson
Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer
And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space. ~George Macaulay Trevelyan, An Autobiography
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. ~Benjamin Whichcote
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. ~Adlai Stevenson, as quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye. ~Winston Churchill
I say never be complete. I say stop being perfect. I say let's evolve. Let the chips fall where they may. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ~Jeremy Collier Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. ~Samuel Butler
If your dog is fat, you're not getting enough exercise. ~Author Unknown
I'll be the in to your sane. ~Numan
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. ~Josephine Hart
I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body. ~Elaine Boosler
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me. ~Proverbs 30:8
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. ~Michel de Montaigne
We turn not older with years, but newer every day. ~Emily Dickinson
Ability is what will get you to the top if the boss has no daughter. ~Author Unknown
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents. ~George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous. ~Diodorus Siculus, c. 20 BC
Angels sail back to God on the sea of joy. ~Terri Guillemets
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. ~Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764
Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow. ~Henry S. Haskins
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. ~Author Unknown
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