Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. ~Lin Yutang
Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun? ~Bob Hope
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. ~Jessamyn West
Language is the dress of thought. ~Samuel Johnson
Not savages? and what else are we, I ask you? We are worse savages than the Australian bushmen, since possessing the knowledge of our savagery, we persist in it. ~"The Mission," Chapter 6
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. ~W. Somerset Maugham
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~Karl Reiland
I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit. ~Mae West
The lost leaves measure our years; they are gone as the days are gone. ~Richard Jefferies, The Life of the Fields, 1908
The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. ~Author Unknown
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ~Will Rogers
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. ~John Erskine There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. ~John Erskine
Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things. ~William Golding Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. ~Jacob M. Braude
The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings. ~Garrett Hardin
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Confucius, Analects
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. ~Thomas Fuller
Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born. ~Garrett Hardin
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings
Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. ~Marie Laurencin
I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee. ~Flash Rosenberg
He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself. ~Dawn Fraser
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. ~Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993
