The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life. ~Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse, 1883
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. ~Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, 1978
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history? ~Katharine Anthony
Every moment of pleasure in life has to be purchased by an equal moment of pain. ~Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Up the Long Ladder," Danilo O'Dell
If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race. ~Bill Cosby
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. ~Leo Buscaglia
Admiration and familiarity are strangers. ~George Sand
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use. ~Mark Twain
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~Anais Nin, Diary, 1969
Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum. ~Terri Guillemets
Every man's disease is his personal property. ~Alonzo Clark
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. ~David Russell
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ~Samuel McChord Crothers, "Every Man's Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else" The Dame School of Experience, 1920
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other.... ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. ~Joseph Addison
People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens. ~Bert R. Sugar
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. ~Robert Peel
If you marry a skier, marry tall - they walk with their knees bent ten months out of the year. ~Author Unknown
No matter how much the neurotic accomplished yesterday - even if he finished - he must start anew today. ~Terri Guillemets
The payment of taxes gives a right to protection. ~James M. Wayne
If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ~Dave Barry If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ~Dave Barry
At the point where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com