Men are generally more careful of the Breed of their Horses and Dogs than of their Children. ~William Penn, Fruits of Solitude
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. ~Glenn Turner
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ~Ernest Gaines
Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. ~Mary Pickford
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants. ~Samuil Shchatunovski
Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. ~Mary Roberts Rinehart
Our concern must be to live while we're alive... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. ~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
We starve the rats, creosote the ticks, swat the flies, step on the cockroaches and poison the scales. Yet when these pests appear in human form we go paralytic. ~Martin H. Fischer
I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to. ~Author Unknown
If a neurotic can't stand the heat, he lights another candle. ~Terri Guillemets
Thank heaven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine. ~A.P. Herbert
How can one help shivering with delight when one's hot fingers close around the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade and stiff with newborn vigor! ~Colette
The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there. ~Robert Altman
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. ~Bette Midler
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ~Thomas Helm
And lo, The Hospital, grey, quiet, old, Where Life and Death like friendly chafferers meet. ~William Ernest Henley
American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. ~Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, 1992
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. ~Benjamin Franklin (Thank you, Kyle.)
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. ~Zen Saying
Where does the white go when the snow melts? ~Author Unknown
Peace be to you, fear not. ~Genesis 43:23
