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We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. ~Henry David Thoreau


If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could! ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Where thou art - that - is Home. ~Emily Dickinson


We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. ~John Updike


Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone. ~Jens Jensen, Siftings, 1939


Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. ~Joseph Conrad


A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle. ~Johannes Kepler


When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure. ~Author Unknown


I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. ~Simone de Beauvoir


Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. ~Karl Popper


If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. ~Emma Goldman, The Tragedy of Women's Emancipation


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


Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease. ~Lisa Alther


In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ~Sam Llewelyn


I just don't know why they're shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence. Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back. ~Hawkeye, M*A*S*H, "O.R."


Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. ~Mary Daly


There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs. ~Bill Vaughan


The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren


Losing is the great American sin. ~Jerome Holtzman


The other line moves faster. ~Etorre's Observation