Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern
Mammon, n.: The god of the world's leading religion. ~Ambrose Bierce
These blessed candles of the night. ~William Shakespeare, referring to stars, Merchant of Venice
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. ~Gene Fowler, Skyline, 1961 Men are not going to embrace eugenics. They are going to embrace the first likely, trim-figured girl with limpid eyes and flashing teeth who comes along, in spite of the fact that her germ plasm is probably reeking with hypertension, cancer, haemophilia, colour blindness, hay fever, epilepsy, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ~Logan Clendening
Novelties please less than they impress. ~Byron, Don Juan, 1824
Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car. ~Author Unknown
Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? ~Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch, 1970
Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money. ~Robin Williams
Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 15
Knock the "t" off the "can't." ~Samuel Johnson
If all efficiency experts were laid end to end - I'd be in favor of it. ~Al Diamond
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Art Linkletter
"I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know." ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 24, spoken by the character Mr. Antolini
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. ~Henry David Thoreau
Drunkenness is temporary suicide. ~Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ~Rene Char
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The groves were God's first temples. ~William Cullen Bryant, "A Forest Hymn"
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
A day of battle is a day of harvest for the devil. ~William Hooke
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ~Leo Buscaglia
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year. ~E.B. White, "The Distant Music of the Hounds," The Second Tree from the Corner, 1954
