There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. ~Michel de Montaigne, Of Solitude
Always jump in the puddles! Always skip alongside the flowers. The only fights worth fighting are the pillow and food varieties. ~Terri Guillemets
I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume. ~John Van Druten I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you. ~Margi Clark
My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time. ~Linda Sunshine
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
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. ~Gaston Bachelard
Men of lean habit of body are commonly a long time healthy, having good appetites and strong stomachs for digestion. ~Tobias Venner
As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am. ~Erma Bombeck
It is not a fragrant world. ~Raymond Chandler
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. ~R. Buckminister Fuller
Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale. ~Victoria Secunda, Women and Their Fathers, 1992
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ~Loren Eiseley
I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out. ~Eugene V. Debs
One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good. ~George Archer
To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
The shy and the extroverted have this in common - that they both fancy they are the center of attention. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Hearing protection is a sound investment. ~Author Unknown
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. ~Ray Bradbury
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. ~Rudy Giuliani
There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Whatever the Americans are proud of - whatever they consider to be particularly good, useful, brilliant, or characteristic of themselves or their climate, they designate, half in jest, though scarcely half in earnest, as an "institution." Thus the memory of George Washington... is an institution; the Falls of Niagara are an institution; the Plymouth Rock, on which the Pilgrim Fathers first set foot, is an institution...; "Sweet potatoes" are an institution, and Pumpkin (or Punkin) pie is an institution; ...squash is an institution; Bunker Hill is an institution; and the firemen of New York are a great institution. ~Charles Mackay, Life and Liberty in America, 1850