black and white quotes and sayings

On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation." ~Confucian Analects


Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right. ~William Allen White (Thanks, Bob)


Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. ~James Cardinal Gibbons


Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! ~Psalms 133:1


Jim Bakker spells his name with 2 k's because 3 would be too obvious. ~Bill Maher


Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ~Woody Allen


Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


I dream of hiking into my old age. ~Marlyn Doan


He takes away my breath! He makes me reel!


It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. ~Aeschylus


The Internet is the trailer park for the soul. ~Marilyn Manson


When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. ~Voltaire


Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. ~Napoleon


Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ~Elizabeth Drew


Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! ~Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist


It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ~Benjamin Disraeli


The most decisive actions of our life... are most often unconsidered actions. ~Andre Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1926


The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841


If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter. ~Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld


God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics. ~Martin H. Fischer