A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality. ~E.B. White, One Man's Meat, 1944
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. ~Thomas Paine
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. ~Evelyn Waugh
It's difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have - or are. ~Author Unknown
Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start - but they can't when they finish. ~Martin H. Fischer
It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize. ~Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972
If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine. ~Author Unknown
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ~Wayne W. Dyer
If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. ~M.H. Alderson
Most people want security in this world, not liberty. ~H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956
The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. ~Jack Nicklaus
The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. ~Michel de Montaigne, Of Solitude
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. ~Jorge Luis Borges
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. ~Robert Frost
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
Does the father figure in your cat's life ever clean the litter box? My husband claims that men lack the scooping gene. ~Barbara L. Diamond
Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers. ~Author Unknown
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton
Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later. ~Dana Stewart Scott
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. ~T.S. Eliot
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. ~Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit
Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved. ~Susan Diane Murphree
Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? ~Author Unknown
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. ~Thomas Fuller
