The shadows: some hide, others reveal. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. ~George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists
What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. ~Havelock Ellis
The shadows: some hide, others reveal. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. ~Adlai Stevenson, as quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
Can you find another market like this? Where, with your one rose, you can buy hundreds of rose gardens? ~Rumi
The moon is like a mystery novel, the sun like a motivational self-help book, and the stars a coffee table book of photography. The sky is the whole library, and God the librarian. ~Terri Guillemets
An unwatched pot boils immediately. ~H.F. Ellis
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ~Rene Char
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ~Author Unknown
The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her. ~Marcelene Cox
Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally
A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad. ~John Andrew Holmes
Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
Luxury is an ancient notion. There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up. ~Argosy
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. ~Paul Engle, New York Times, 17 February 1957
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ~Ernest Hemingway
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters. ~Roger L'Estrange, Aesop's Fables, 1692
Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate
What is the difference between a taxidermist
and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1902
The progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea. ~Edgar Saltus, The Philosophy of Disenchantment
An intellectual is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger. ~John Chesson
