Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. ~E.B. White
Don't tell your friends about your indigestions: "How are you!" is a greeting, not a question. ~Arthur Guiterman, A Poet's Proverbs
The stars, which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields of heaven. ~Philip James Bailey
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan, 1896
Usefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental. ~Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife, 1829
An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. ~Charles Baudelaire
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. ~John Buchan
But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. ~Francis Darwin
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. ~Arthur Miller
Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. ~Gian Vincenzo Gravina
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. ~Edmund Burke, The Revolution in France, 1790
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. ~George Bernard Shaw
What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp. ~Author Unknown
No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden. ~Hugh Johnson
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. ~Niccolo Machiavelli
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874
Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. ~Domenico Cieri Estrada
Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics. ~Leighann Lord
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ~Bob Hope
Women who miscalculate are called mothers. ~Abigail Van Buren
...trout that doesn't think two jumps and several runs ahead of the average fisherman is mighty apt to get fried. ~Beatrice Cook, Till Fish Do Us Part, 1949
The American people have now spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine what they've said. ~Bill Clinton, about the 2000 election
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ~Thomas Hardy