Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. ~Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862
Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. ~Astrid Alauda
Once more the demon of perversity, that stupid demon to whom I owed all my unhappiness - because I had so stupidly obeyed him - intervened again and advised me hypocritically to resist an unhoped-for adventure, a fairy-tale come to life which would never be encountered again and which I ardently desired from the bottom of my heart, and which had actually materialized. No... no! It was too stupid, after all! ~"The Mission," Chapter 8
Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. ~Author Unknown
A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have. ~Author Unknown
Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray. ~Paul Morand
I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
What is stronger than a mother's love? The smell of spring onions on your girl's breath. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath
If movement was a language, skipping would be the natural word for "bliss." ~Theresa "Heartdancer" Carey, as posted on iskip.com
Thank God every morning when you get up, that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know. ~Charles Kingsley Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau
We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm. ~Winston Churchill
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ~James Thurber
Congratulations! You're not perfect! It's ridiculous to want to be perfect anyway. But then, everybody's ridiculous sometimes, except perfect people. You know what perfect is? Perfect is not eating or drinking or talking or moving a muscle or making even the teensiest mistake. Perfect is never doing anything wrong - which means never doing anything at all. Perfect is boring! So you're not perfect! Wonderful! Have fun! Eat things that give you bad breath! Trip over your own shoelaces! Laugh! Let somebody else laugh at you! Perfect people never do any of those things. All they do is sit around and sip weak tea and think about how perfect they are. But they're really not one-hundred-percent perfect anyway. You should see them when they get the hiccups! Phooey! Who needs 'em? You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week. ~Stephen Manes, Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. ~Thomas Foxwell Buxton
Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were. ~Author Unknown Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were. ~Author Unknown
There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure. ~Dan Bennett
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ~Charles Schulz
As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man's capacity to better himself had a moment of inspiration and confidence in the future of the human race. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., about the March on Washington in the summer of 1963, Why We Can't Wait, 1963
Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~Henry James
Diplomacy: The business of handling a porcupine without disturbing the quills. ~Author Unknown
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. ~Doug Larson
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and put them in my mouth. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
We are the wrong people of the wrong skin in the wrong continent and what in the hell is everybody being reasonable about? ~June Jordan