Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ~Doug Larson
They need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end. ~Jack Kerouac
Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. ~James Hastings
We hear the beating of wings over Bethlehem and a light that is not of the sun or of the stars shines in the midnight sky. Let the beauty of the story take away all narrowness, all thought of formal creeds. Let it be remembered as a story that has happened again and again, to men of many different races, that has been expressed through many religions, that has been called by many different names. Time and space and language lay no limitations upon human brotherhood. ~New York Times, 25 December 1937, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938, published by The H.W. Wilson Company, New York
America is the best half-educated country in the world. ~Nicholas Murray Butler
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. ~Samuel Johnson
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. ~Harlan Miller
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. ~Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies
Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. ~Author Unknown
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~Victor Hugo
Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life. ~Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. ~Oscar Wilde
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. ~Charles Caleb Colton
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ~Mary Wortley Montagu
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. ~Hugh Prather
Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. ~Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo
I felt like a race horse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like a date on a tombstone. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. ~Sallust
Now is the time to get drunk! To stop being the martyred slaves of time, to get absolutely drunk - on wine, poetry, or on virtue, as you please. ~Charles Baudelaire, "Enivrez-vous," Paris Spleen, 1869
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. ~Cynthia Ozick
Computers have lots of memory but no imagination. ~Author Unknown
The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want. ~Aristotle, Politics
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. ~Ignazio Silone
