The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. ~William Lyon MacKenzie
Usefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental. ~Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife, 1829
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ~Marcel Proust
I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society. ~Scott Adams
Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? ~Richard Bach
If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat? ~Author Unknown
How reluctantly the mind consents to reality! ~Norman Douglas
You must be at the end of your rope. I felt a tug. ~Author Unknown You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~Mahatma Ghandi
It's not just a rock. It's forty-two pounds of polished granite, with a beveled underbelly and a handle a human being can hold. Okay, so in and of itself it looks like it has no practical purpose, but it's a repository of possibility. And, when it's handled just right, it exacts a kind of poetry - as close to poetry as I ever want to get. The way it moves.... Not once, in everything I've done, have I ever felt the same wonder and humanity as when I'm playing the game of curling. ~Paul Gross, John Krizanc, and Paul Quarrington, Men with Brooms
There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes. ~Jose Ortega y Gasset
Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them. ~Gene Perret
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself. ~Author Unknown
I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior. ~Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990
People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Start every day with a smile and get it over with. ~W.C. Fields
I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal. ~Abraham Lincoln
I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. ~Lewis Grizzard
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. ~Arnold Bennett
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone. ~Taylor Caldwell
Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. ~Lord Chesterfield
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. ~Abraham Lincoln
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee. ~Harry Mahtar