Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism. ~William James
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness. ~Holbrook Jackson
My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said. ~Author Unknown
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. ~Gordon W. Allport
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ~E.M. Forster
Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. "Do you believe there is a devil?" asked one. "No," said the other promptly. "It's like Santa Claus: it's your father." ~Ladies' Home Journal, quoted in 2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs by Edward F. Murphy
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968
America Online customers are upset because the company has decided to allow advertising in its chat rooms. I can see why: you've got computer sex, you can download pornography, people are making dates with 10-year-olds. Hey, what's this? A Pepsi ad? They're ruining the integrity of the Internet! ~Jay Leno
Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" ~Robin Williams
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair. ~Martial
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. ~C. Northcote Parkinson, 1958
Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories. ~H.L. Mencken
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. ~Author Unknown
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. ~Gloria Steinem
Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. ~Gian Vincenzo Gravina
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. ~Edgar W. Howe
Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. ~Norman Cousins
Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. ~Eva Peron
Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific. ~Aaron Copland
History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler. ~Henry Glassie
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. ~Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
You might be a firefighter if the microwave goes off and you run out of the house thinking it was your pager. ~Author Unknown