Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you. ~Frank Crane
The Arctic expresses the sum of all wisdom: Silence. ~Walter Bauer
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. ~Henry David Thoreau
Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them. ~Gene Perret
In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base. ~Ken Harrelson
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? ~Abraham Lincoln
There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex. ~Billy Joel
By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest. ~Agesilaus
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~Jean Anouilh
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli
God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them. ~Author Unknown
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. ~Bill Vaughan
A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap. ~Miriam Muhammad
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. ~Jane Austen
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs. ~Joan Welsh
Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world. ~Henry Louis Mencken, The American Language
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. ~Bertrand Russell
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. ~Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things"
Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being. If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion. ~Adrian Forsyth, A Natural History of Sex, 1986
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. ~Rudyard Kipling
Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations. ~Ron Dentinger
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ~Gustav Mahler
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way. ~Bernie S. Siegel
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right.... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep. ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1580 Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal disease and so on - are usually the very same people who seek the fulfillment of their prophecies by opposing the free availability to the young of contraception and the removal of the stigma and mystification that surround venereal disease. ~Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action
