When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? ~Chuck Palahniuk
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished. ~Lord Chesterfield
Life ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick, On Being a Real Person
The number of shots taken by an opponent who is out of sight is equal to the square root of the sum of the number of curses heard plus the number of swishes. ~Michael Green, The Art of Coarse Golf, 1975
I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have no laws at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated
Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Nurses - one of the few blessings of being ill. ~Sara Moss-Wolfe
Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one. ~Art Buchwald, 1969
Men expect too much, do too little. ~Allen Tate
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes.... Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world - I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. ~Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me, 1928
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ~Peter Devries
Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Regardless of differences, we strive shoulder to shoulder... Teamwork can be summed up in five short words: "We believe in each other." ~Author Unknown
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way around. ~David Lodge, The British Museum Is Falling Down, 1965
Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night. ~Terri Guillemets
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. ~Sam Ewing
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism? ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ~Ludwig van Beethoven
It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted. ~Theodore Roosevelt, 1907 Arbor Day Message
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet. ~Kojiro Tomita
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right. ~Isaac Asimov
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. ~Germaine Greer
The road to success is wherever people need another road. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
