The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five. ~Paul Harvey
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949
Unless your name ends in Baskin or Robbins, I really can't fit you into my schedule right now. ~Uniek Swain
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?" ~Eve Merriam
This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder. ~Honore de Balzac, "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee"
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. ~James Russell Lowell
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ~Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. ~Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom. ~Taki
Swimming: From the outside looking in, you can�t understand it. From the inside looking out, you can�t explain it. ~Author Unknown
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. ~Johann von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The records do not show that Adam and Eve were married. ~Ed Howe
Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. ~Author Unknown
Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. ~Allen Tate
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget. ~William Osler
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. ~Christopher Morley
Time is the wisest counsellor of all. ~Pericles
Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. ~Francis Meehan
Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept. ~Doug Larson
A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human fee
lings right. ~John K. Hutchens, New York Herald Tribune, 10 September 1961
Man - a being in search of meaning. ~Plato
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Notebook L," Aphorisms