michelle lewin

Hunger makes a thief of any man. ~Pearl S. Buck


No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. ~Voltaire


Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. ~Samuel Butler


We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves. ~Errico Malatesta, l'Agitazione, 18 June 1897


One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. ~Jack Penn


We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Humor is just another defense against the universe. ~Mel Brooks


To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. ~Reba McEntire


If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. ~Lewis Hine


A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. ~Author Unknown


Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern society in a habitat unfit to grow a tomato. ~Jason Love


Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year. ~P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners


Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~Jean Anouilh


The individual woman is required... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition. ~Jeannette Rankin


Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia. ~Barbara Ehrenreich


A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed. ~George Rosenbaum


Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith


In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the Keno Lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there. ~Author Unknown


It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. ~Henry Louis Mencken