I had a thousand questions to ask God; but when I met him they all fled and didn't seem to matter. ~Christopher Morley, Inward Ho!, 1923
After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw
Witticism: a smart saying, notable for its form rather than content.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. ~Norman Vincent Peale
This year, in this election, we are called to reaffirm our values and commitments, to hold them against a hard reality and see how we are measuring up, to the legacy of our forbearers, and the promise of future generations. ~Barack Obama, Keynote Address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, 2004 Jul 27
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. ~Don Marquis
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. ~Henri Cartier Bresson
Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. ~Michael Strassfeld
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'. ~Henry Moore
Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball. ~Woodie Held
Who depends on another man's table often dines late. ~John Ray
Our job is not to make up anybody's mind, but to open minds and to make the agony of the decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking. ~Author Unknown
How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards. ~John Gay
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. ~Walt Whitman
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. ~Doug Larson
When you lose, don't lose the lesson. ~Author Unknown
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. ~Benjamin Franklin
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream. ~William Shakespeare, Henry IV
Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. ~Charles Caleb Colton
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome. ~William Ewart Gladstone
