The large print giveth, but the small print taketh away. ~Tom Waits, Small Change
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. ~Robert Frost
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. ~Edgar Watson Howe
When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot. ~Larry Lujack
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. ~Herman Melville
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you. ~Francoise Sagan
Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it. ~Author Unknown
If gay and lesbian people are given civil rights, then everyone will want them! ~Author unknown, as seen on a button at evolvefish.com
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. ~T.S. Eliot, quoted in Time, 23 October 1950
Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake. ~Author Unknown
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. ~Walt Whitman
Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds. ~Author Unknown
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. ~Margaret Mead
A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. ~Psalms 84:10
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. ~Rachel Carson
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ~Eric Fromm
They gave him a manger for a cradle, a carpenter's bench for a pulpit, thorns for a crown, and a cross for a throne. He took them and made them the very glory of his career. ~W.E. Orchard
We are always getting ready to live but never living. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Having a bottom is living with the enemy. Not only do they spend their lives slowly inflating, they flirt with men while we're looking the other way. ~Coupling, "Her Best Friend's Bottom," original airdate 17 September 2001, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Sally
Labor: One of the processes by which A acquires property of B. ~Ambrose Bierce
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
