People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are. ~Marya Mannes
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked. ~Jeff Pesis
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. ~Robert Frost
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. ~Erma Bombeck
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. ~Saint Augustine
Everyone crashes. Some get back on. Some don't. Some can't. ~Author Unknown
I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play. ~Simon Gray I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. ~George McGovern
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. ~Clifton Fadiman
A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow. ~Lee Iacocca
I don't rent space to anyone in my head. ~Anonymous man on Candid Camera, answering Allen Funt's question about why he had not gotten upset
It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher. ~Charles Peirce
We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes. ~Anne C. Weisberg
They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11, spoken by the character Atticus
Dieting is not a piece of cake. ~Author Unknown
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. ~Benjamin Franklin
People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. ~Anais Nin
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings
The poem... is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life. ~Robert Penn Warren, Saturday Review, 22 March 1958
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. ~Stephen King
Sun spreads through the treetops like an epidemic. ~Dave Bonta, from The Morning Porch blog at www.morningporch.com/post/96792742/orange-tabby
Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on. ~Colette
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