The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon. ~Bill Strickland
You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people. ~Will Rogers
It was as though he had cut up the sky, melted down a flower garden, tossed in some jewels and made it into glass. ~Hugh McKean, this is not referring to jewelry but to Tiffany's glass
You are what you eat. For example, if you eat garlic you're apt to be a hermit. ~Franklin P. Jones
No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit. ~Thurman W. Arnold
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. ~Attributed to both Jim Goodwin and Sydney J. Harris
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow
the civil service examination. ~Ronald Reagan
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld
O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other. ~Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol. I, book II, chapter 1
To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart. ~W. Macneile Dixon
The adrenal gland has a very peculiar way of slowing down when it has been overtaxed and overburdened. It fails in the manner of a large dying star, which gets brighter and brighter before it burns out. ~Karilee and Richard Shames, Feeling Fat, Fuzzy, or Frazzled?, 2005
Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing. ~Herman Broch
There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night. ~Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. ~Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951
Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. ~Elise Boulding
Night and morning are making promises to each other which neither will be able to keep. ~Richard Shelton
The cigarette does the smoking - you're just the sucker. ~Author Unknown
Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious. ~P.G. Wodehouse, A Mixed Threesome, 1922
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. ~H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956
In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. ~Wilson Mizner
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