It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. ~Lewis Grizzard
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. ~John Lubbock
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! ~James Russell Lowell
Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera? ~Attributed to Stephen Colbert
The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. ~George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan
No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. ~John Muir
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. ~Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Probably the most honest "self-made man" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way." ~James Thom
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. ~Henry Maudsley
I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end." ~Douglas Adams
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. ~Abraham Lincoln
Primitive tribes were certainly convinced that the spirit, having escaped from the body at death, retained a replica of its earthly tenement. They therefore used tattoo marks as a means of identification in the next world and a passport to future happiness. ~Ronald Scutt
A lie is an excuse guarded. ~Jonathan Swift
Whose indomitable spirit changed the face of the earth for us. ~Edmund Arthur Helps
I prefer to think of them as the Ten Suggestions. ~Author Unknown
Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are. ~Erik Satie
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. ~James Joyce
God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins. ~Mark Twain
A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? ~Stanislaw J. Lec
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ~George Bernard Shaw
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. ~Ambrose Bierce
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ~C.S. Lewis
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. ~T.S. Eliot, quoted in Time, 23 October 1950
