It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. ~Albert Einstein
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ~Anton Chekhov
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. ~Faith Whittlesey
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful? ~Pliny the Elder, Natural History
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. ~Carl Sandburg
Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution. ~Edward Somers
My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out. ~Ashleigh Brilliant
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ~Samuel Johnson
All men are created equal, then a few become firemen. ~Author Unknown
What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 1
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word. ~Gail Hamilton
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ~Mark Twain
In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality. ~Kristian Kan, Rich By 25
Cutting stalks at noontime. Perspiration drips to the earth. Know you that your bowl of rice each grain from hardship comes? ~Chang Chan-Pao
Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all. ~Vachel Lindsay
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. ~John Ciardi
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. ~Garrison Keillor
Most games are lost, not won. ~Casey Stengel
For a dreamer, night's the only time of day. ~From the movie Newsies
It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting. ~Jean Paul Gaultier
Two-lane blacktop isn't a highway - it's an attitude. ~Author Unknown
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. ~Samuel Johnson
In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
