The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. ~Thomas Wolfe
There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism. ~Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay, 1923
What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it - like a secret vice. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Seventy-five percent of our planet is water - can you swim? ~Author Unknown
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. ~Hansell B. Duckett
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Let the credit card companies market as they will, the only thing that's priceless is Now. ~Caleb Baylor Hive, 2005
There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. ~B.K.S. Iyengar, Yoga: The Path To Holistic Health
Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just. ~Lou Krieger
We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. ~Adam Clayton Powell, Keep the Faith, Baby!, 1967
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. ~Theodore Roosevelt
TV a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. ~Goodman Ace
Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. ~John Lancaster Spalding
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. ~Allen Saunders, 1957
It's about ten times the size of the Bible - and unlike the Bible, contains no good news. ~Don Nickles, about the Internal Revenue Code
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it. ~Author Unknown
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ~Eric Hoffer
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. ~Sir Winston Churchill
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality. ~Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography, 1964
The highest virtue here may be least in another world. ~Kahlil Gibran
The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. ~Robert C. Peale
