A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar. ~Confucius, Analects
A great artist is always before his time or behind it. ~George Moore
God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them. ~Author Unknown
The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here. ~Steve Forbes
If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone. ~Robert Fulghum
When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1580
Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors. ~Elbert Hubbard
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill
I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you. ~Bill Walton
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Ghandi
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. ~Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957
The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. ~Quentin Regestein
A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay
A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it. ~Joseph Epstein
Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Experience," Essays, 1844
One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one's history. ~Lemony Snicket
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. ~Doug Larson
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ~Albert Schweitzer
The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is th
at of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed. ~Soren Kierkegaard
With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them. ~Art Hill
Fudge is a noun, a verb, an interjection, and delicious! ~Jessi Lane Adams
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. ~William Saroyan
The day will happen whether or not you get up. ~John Ciardi
