Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ~Mildred Barthel
I'm so poor I can't even pay attention. ~Ron Kittle, 1987
These blessed candles of the night. ~William Shakespeare, referring to stars, Merchant of Venice
If I knew I should die tomorrow, I would plant a tree today. ~Stephen Girard
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ~Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard
If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls' sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such. ~Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap. ~Author Unknown
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers. ~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires
I have a very firm grasp on reality! I can reach out and strangle it any time! ~Author Unknown
After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez, on his Puerto Rican accent
The finish line is sometimes merely the symbol of victory. All sorts of personal triumphs take place before that point, and the outcome of the race may actually be decided long before the end. ~Laurence Malone, about bicycle racing
Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Fame is proof that the people are gullible. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description. ~W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. ~Brendan Behan
We turn not older with years, but newer every day. ~Emily Dickinson
I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. ~William Shakespeare
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. ~Ulysses S. Grant
It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence... and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect. ~Manitonquat
What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone. ~Bias of Priene, Maxims
A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer. ~Author Unknown
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Christianity, with its roots in Judaism, was a major factor in the development of the Western worldview.... A basic Christian belief was that God gave humans dominion over creation, with the freedom to use the environment as they saw fit. Another important Judeo-Christian belief predicted that God would bring a cataclysmic end to the Earth sometime in the future. One interpretation of this belief is that the Earth is only a temporary way station on the soul's journey to the afterlife. Because these beliefs tended to devalue the natural world, they fostered attitudes and behaviors that had a negative effect on the environment. ~Donald G. Kaufman and Cecilia M. Franz, Biosphere 2000: Protecting Our Global Environment, 1996
