You are the music while the music lasts. ~T.S. Eliot
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. ~Jesse Owens
Joel Siegel: "Yes.... Gilda Radner... said this in her book. What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it.... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff. And what Gilda said is, if it weren't for the downside, everyone would want to have it. But there is a downside."
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. ~Jack London
Most people know more about their congressmen via smear campaigns than they know about their own neighbor via conversations, and a lot of people know more about Britney Spears via tabloids than they know about their own congressmen via voting booklets. Does anyone else see the problem here? ~Brock Fiant
The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city. ~Italo Calvino
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. ~Dodie Smith
The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple. ~Doris Janzen Longacre
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. ~Barbara Jordan
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. ~John Updike
Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
No woman will ever be satisfied because no man will ever have a chocolate penis that shoots out money. ~Author Unknown
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. ~Jean de Boufflers
I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
One man's daydreaming is another man's day. ~Grey Livingston
A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye. ~Anthelme Brillat-Savarin A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline. ~Herbert B. Prochnow
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. ~Ecclesiastes 9:11
Words want to be free! ~Author Unknown
If we o
pened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower. ~Samuel Smiles
Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns. ~William S. Gilbert
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. ~Dan Greenburg
Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies. ~Gene Hill
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. ~Hilaire Belloc
