The pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. ~D.H. Lawrence
Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon (Thanks, David)
Labradors are lousy watchdogs. They usually bark when there is a stranger about, but it is an expression of unmitigated joy at the chance to meet somebody new, not a warning. ~Norman Strung
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. ~Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ~Bruce Catton Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ~Bruce Catton
Our birth is nothing but our death begun. ~Edward Young, Night Thoughts
Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records. ~Author Unknown
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. ~Charles Horton Cooley
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. ~George Meredith
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. ~Lewis Mumford
Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys. ~Amiel, Journal, 1884
The secret affinity between gambling and the desert: the intensity of gambling reinforced by the presence of the desert all around the town. The air-conditioned freshness of the gaming rooms, as against the radiant heat outside. The challenge of all the artificial lights to the violence of the sun's rays. Night of gambling sunlit on all sides; the glittering darkness of these rooms in the middle of the desert. Gambling itself is a desert form, inhuman, uncultured, initiatory, a challenge to the natural economy of value, a crazed activity on the fringes of exchange. But it too has a strict limit and stops abruptly; its boundaries are exact, its passion knows no confusion. Neither the desert nor gambling are open areas; their spaces are finite and concentric, increasing in intensity toward the interior, toward a central point, be it the spirit of gambling or the heart of the desert - a privileged, immemorial space, where things lose their shadow, where money loses its value, and where the extreme rarity of traces of what signals to us there leads men to seek the instantaneity of wealth. ~Jean Baudrillard
One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing. ~Frank Sheed
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. ~Denis Waitley
A fine head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one. ~Lycurgus
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Meade
The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other. ~Johnny Carson
Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. ~S.I. Hayakawa
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~Henry Brooks Adams