Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~Stanislaw Lec
In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head. ~Terri Guillemets
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them? ~Leo Durocher
Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt. ~Terri Guillemets
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. ~Dutch Proverb
One of the great disappointments of a football game is that the cheerleaders never seem to get injured. ~Author Unknown
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. ~Mohammed Ali
Yes, Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brain. So far you are correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat - at least, not with certainty. If the specimen composition you send is about your fair usual average, I should judge that a couple of whales would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but simply good middling-sized whales. ~Mark Twain
The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~Hanna Rion
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. ~Thomas Jefferson
An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Inuit earnestly, "did you tell me?" ~Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. ~Evelyn Waugh
What a type of happy family is the family of the sun! with what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another! ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. ~Erich Fromm
If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. ~Raymond Inmon
There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. ~Mirabel Osler
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. ~Author Unknown
There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other. ~Ivy Compton-Burnett
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. ~Clint Eastwood
All creatures who have ever walked have wished that they might fly. With highwheelers a flesh and blood man can hitch wings to his feet. ~Karl Kron, Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. ~Henry David Thoreau
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. ~Barry Goldwater