When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one. ~Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988 (Thanks, Marlene)
Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude. ~Ernest Hello
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Comments of Abe Martin and His Neighbors, 1923
Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time. ~Henry Miller, Plexus
The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want. ~Aristotle, Politics
Ask me why I keep on loving you when it's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you. ~Author Unknown
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. ~Seneca
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted. ~Andre Gide
The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches. ~Aldous Huxley
Flying is the second best thrill to cheerleaders; being caught is the first. ~Author Unknown
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A three-inch rain in Phoenix means three inches between drops. ~Local Saying
What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third. ~Leo Durocher
Stitch your stress away. ~Author Unknown
There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite. ~Abraham Lincoln
When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. ~Rita Mae Brown
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. ~Antisthenes
As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort. ~Paul Corey
Our genes make us immortal. ~The Secret of Life, PBS
The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out. ~Carly Fiorina
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ~Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, 1977