When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. ~Peter Marshall
Historian: A broad-gauge gossip. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank. ~Rabindranath Tagore
Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive. ~Jean-Paul Aron
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one. ~Lauren Raffo
The great men of science are supreme artists. ~Martin H. Fischer
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. ~Norman Mailer
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later. ~Lucimar Santos de Lima
Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space. ~Gene Perret
Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. ~Havelock Ellis
One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless. ~Liz Smith
Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains. ~Jane Ellice Hopkins
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb. ~Benjamin Franklin
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. ~Socrates
Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.... Thus the entire arsenal of governments - laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons - is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society. ~Emma Goldman, Anarchism
We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe
I don't think it's possible to skip with a frown on your face.... I'd like to see the world's governing and terrorist leaders on a skipping tour through the Middle East and across the subcontinent and China to Korea. ~Sue Irwin, as posted on iskip.com
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. ~Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876
Life is an incurable Disease. ~Abraham Cowley
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. ~Author Unknown
A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others. ~Norman Shidle
What a hero Tom was become now! He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger as became a pirate who felt that the public eye was on him. ~Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
