Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. ~Seneca
The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind. ~Katherine Mansfield
It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated
It is always the secure who are humble. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton
If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage? ~Marquise de Sevigne
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. ~Karl Popper, Unended Quest
Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them. ~Martin H. Fischer
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. ~Mark Twain
Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast. ~Woody Allen
What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs. ~Harry Caray
God's will is not an itinerary, but an attitude. ~Andrew Dhuse
The years teach much which the days never knew. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
If you got to talking to most cowboys, they'd admit they write 'em. I think some of the meanest, toughest sons of bitches around write poetry. ~Ross Knox
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences. ~Lewis Mumford
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. ~Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous, 1957
Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have! ~Don A. Dillman, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, January 1977
Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government." ~Lenny Bruce
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ~Helen Keller
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. ~H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. ~Roger Babson
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. ~Author Unknown
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. ~Josh Billings
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