The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. ~Randall Jarrell
When a guy goes to a hooker, he's not paying her for sex, he's paying her to leave. ~Author Unknown
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. ~Henry Ford
Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. ~River Phoenix
Change always comes bearing gifts. ~Price Pritchett
A married daughter with children puts you in danger of being catalogued as a first edition. ~Author Unknown
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. ~Clifton Fadiman
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living. ~Alvin Dark
In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head. ~Terri Guillemets
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. ~Sacha Guitry, Elles et toi, 1948
Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at? ~W.S. Gilbert
There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said "Let us pray," and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible. ~Desmond M. Tutu, "Religious Human Rights and the Bible"
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. ~Anna Brownell Jameson
A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. ~John K. Hutchens, New York Herald Tribune, 10 September 1961
Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness. ~John Fisher, The Plot to Make You Buy, 1968
Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. ~Al Hirschfeld
Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. ~Socrates
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. ~George Orwell
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. ~Robert Benchley
Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring. ~Edward Gorey
