Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. ~Josh Billings
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~Rogers Hornsby
The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. ~Ecclesiastes 5:12
If people were meant to pop out of bed, we'd all sleep in toasters. ~Author unknown, attributed to Jim Davis
No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. ~Booker T. Washington
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. ~George Pataki
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. ~Democritus
There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said "Let us pray," and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible. ~Desmond M. Tutu, "Religious Human Rights and the Bible"
If a man would move the world, he must first move himself. ~Socrates
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. ~Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 1964
You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-You-Are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you're terrified somebody's going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somaliland. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself. ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Paul Varjak You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die. ~Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, The Sopranos, "Isabella," original airdate 28 March 1999, spoken by the character Tony Soprano
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 3
Bill Hemmer: "You said cancer changes your life, and oftentimes for the better."
It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space. ~Author Unknown
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. ~Bruce Barton
It's so hot even my fake plants are wilting. ~Linda Solegato
Ability is of little account without opportunity. ~Napoleon
We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution. ~John F. Kennedy
Growth is the only evidence of life. ~John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all. ~Elbert Hubbard
Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something. ~Author Unknown