Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions! ~W.J. Reichmann
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ~Elbert Hubbard
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ~Albert Einstein
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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
A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. ~Gloria Steinem
Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. ~Franklin P. Jones
My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch. ~Lee Trevino
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. ~Marcelene Cox
He is a true fugitive who flies from reason. ~Marcus Aurelius
There are no facts, only interpretations. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. ~Malcolm Muggeridge
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln
No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set. ~John Milton
How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it. ~Leo Tolstoy, Last Diaries, 1960
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said 'Stop! don't do it!' 'Why shouldn't I?' he said. I said, 'Well, there's so much to live for!' He said, 'Like what?' I said, 'Well...are you religious or atheist?' He said, 'Religious.' I said, 'Me too! Are you Christian or Buddhist?' He said, 'Christian.' I said, 'Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?' He said, 'Protestant.' I said, 'Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?' He said, 'Baptist!' I said, 'Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist church of god or Baptist church of the lord?' He said, 'Baptist church of god!' I said, 'Me too! Are you original Baptist church of god, or are you reformed Baptist church of god?' He said, 'Reformed Baptist church of god!' I said, 'Me too! Are you reformed Baptist church of god, reformation of 1879, or reformed Baptist church of god, reformation of 1915?' He said, 'Reformed Baptist church of god, reformation of 1915!' I said, 'Die, heretic scum,' and pushed him off. ~Emo Phillips
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. ~Edward R. Murrow
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. ~Sydney Smith
We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it. ~John F. Kennedy, 1961
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~Theodore N. Vail
Mammon, n.: The god of the world's leading religion. ~Ambrose Bierce
Don't do what you'll have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
A watched child never learns. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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