There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs. ~Henry Ward Beecher
The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well. ~Ivan Illich, Energy and Equity, 1974
My garden is my favorite teacher. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com
The Christian Right is neither. ~Author Unknown
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvellous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter II "The Market-Place"
Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you get off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking. ~Gene Mauch
The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go. ~Winston Churchill
Vegetables are the food of the earth; fruit seems more the food of the heavens. ~Sepal Felicivant
Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A part of this strangeness of dress is that it links the biological body to the social being, and public to private. ~Elizabeth Wilson
The best alarm clock is sunshine on chrome. ~Author Unknown
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. ~George Jean Nathan
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ~Thomas Jefferson
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~Anais Nin, Diary, 1969
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ~Albert Einstein
There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future. ~Shri Haidakhan Babaji
Sometimes I give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. ~Mary Wortley Montagu
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. ~Marya Mannes
There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. ~Wesley Bates
Most grandmas have a touch of the scallywag. ~Helen Thomson
Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated. ~Erma Bombeck
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart. ~W. Macneile Dixon
