Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. ~Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, 1759
Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. ~Vinton Cerf
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ~Robert F. Kennedy
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. ~John Morley
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. ~Jeffrey Borenstein
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ~Mark Twain
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. ~Charles Dickens
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. ~Voltaire
Grandma quilts have love in every stitch. ~Author Unknown
To decide is to walk facing forward with nary a crick in your neck from looking back at the crossroads. ~Betsy Canas Garmon
Smoke your pipe and be silent; there's only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god. ~Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia, 1977
I wouldn't be surprised if one day Carl's halo slipped and choked him. ~Allan Wells, referring to Carl Lewis, 1989
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ~Harold Wilson
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. ~J.K. Galbraith
It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
That word "lesbian" sounds like a disease. And straight men know because they're sure that they're the cure. ~Denise McCanles
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization. ~Author Unknown
I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse. ~Lord Byron
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. ~Author Unknown
