If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. ~Author Unknown
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. ~George Bernard Shaw, to Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior? ~James Donovan
Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments. ~Attributed to both Bert Masterson and Earl Wilson
I am an invisible man.... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ~Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man, 1952
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. ~Woodrow Wilson
Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back. ~Gwyn Thomas
One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good. ~Abe Lemmons
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ~Washington Irving
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Player Piano
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between. ~Bill Veeck
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. ~Michael Pollan, Second Nature, 1991
Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1892
The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values. ~William Ralph
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The Main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. ~John Steinbeck, 10 November 1958
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. ~Karl Friedrich Gauss
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. ~Max Beerbohm
Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work. ~Author Unknown
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. ~Orson Welles
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 20
It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. ~Olin Miller