Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't. ~Lord Raglan
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. ~John Steinbeck, America and Americans
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. ~Samuel Johnson
Homecoming means tradition. ~Author Unknown
What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp. ~Author Unknown
Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I don't like a guy with flowers. It means he's done something he shouldn't. The bigger the bouquet, the younger she was. ~Coupling, "Nine and a Half Minutes," original airdate 10 May 2004, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Sally I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough. ~Felix Frankfurter
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ~Charlie McCarthy
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. ~Theodor Reik, Of Love and Lust, 1957
If men had more up top we'd need less up front. ~Jaci Stephen
I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. ~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. ~Author Unknown
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Bread-Winner
Fear prejudices courage. ~Abigail Charleson
I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that - as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. ~Charles Dickens
He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. ~W. Eugene Smith
Whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse. ~Gary Veale
Sex.... It's just like cuddling - only damper. ~Coupling, "Unconditional Sex," original airdate 7 October 2002, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Jeff
A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb, as quoted on vanishingtattoo.com
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the will of others? ~Galileo Galilei
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. ~William Drummond, Academical Questions
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli
