There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure. ~Author Unknown
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Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. ~Robert Gallagher
Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in. ~Chinese Saying
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. ~Gary Hart
Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression. ~Mark Epstein
Literature is the question minus the answer. ~Roland Barthes
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. ~Lord Acton
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ~Thomas Carlyle
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. ~Marcel Proust
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks. ~Carrie Latet
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. ~Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues
All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: History
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. ~C.G. Jung, Integration of the Personality, 1939
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description. ~W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions
The results of quality work last longer than the shock of high prices. ~Author Unknown
If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: "Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma." ~Linda Sunshine
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. ~Benjamin Franklin
Puns are the gag hand buzzers of conversation. It hurts a bit but everyone gets a good laugh out of it. ~Grey Livingston
Wall Street criminality is growing by leaps. There are no bounds. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
A man's nature runs either to herbs, or to weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other. ~Francis Bacon
"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be." ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 22, spoken by the character Holden Caulfield
Well hath he been called one of the architects of civilization. ~Newell Dwight Hillis
