
A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality. ~E.B. White, One Man's Meat, 1944

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. ~Thomas Paine

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. ~Evelyn Waugh

It's difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have - or are. ~Author Unknown

Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start - but they can't when they finish. ~Martin H. Fischer

It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize. ~Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972

If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine. ~Author Unknown

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ~Wayne W. Dyer

If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. ~M.H. Alderson

Most people want security in this world, not liberty. ~H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. ~Jack Nicklaus

The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. ~Michel de Montaigne, Of Solitude

Democracy is an abuse of statistics. ~Jorge Luis Borges

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. ~Robert Frost

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb

Does the father figure in your cat's life ever clean the litter box? My husband claims that men lack the scooping gene. ~Barbara L. Diamond

Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers. ~Author Unknown

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later. ~Dana Stewart Scott
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. ~T.S. Eliot
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. ~Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit
Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved. ~Susan Diane Murphree
Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? ~Author Unknown
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. ~Thomas Fuller