You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping. ~Rudyard Kipling
Baseball is too much of a sport to be a business and too much of a business to be a sport. ~Phillip Wrigley
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished and put inside boxes. ~Dave Barry
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. ~Stephen Baker
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. ~Harriet van Horne
Staying with people consists in your not having your own way, and their not having theirs. ~Maarten Maartens
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ~Victor Hugo
Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. ~John Henry Cardinal Newman
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. ~Bern Williams
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. ~Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
Logic is one thing and commonsense another. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927
The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off." ~Carl Sandburg
God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. ~John Aughey
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. ~W.B. Yeats
Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats
Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down. ~Bede Jarrett
Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~Eva Gabor
God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them. ~Author Unknown
Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ~Kahlil Gibran
The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be. ~Lao-tzu
