Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief. ~Arthur Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought, 1932
Can we actually "know" the universe? My God, it's hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown. ~Woody Allen, Getting Even, 1971
Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God. ~Krishnamacharya
Society is composed of two great classes - those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. ~Sebastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. ~Adlai Stevenson, as quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
A veteran USDA meat inspector from Texas describes what he has seen: "Cattle dragged and choked... knocking 'em four, five, ten times. Every now and then when they're stunned they come back to life, and they're up there agonizing. They're supposed to be re-stunned but sometimes they aren't and they'll go through the skinning process alive. I've worked in four large slaughterhouses and a bunch of small ones. They're all the same. If people were to see this, they'd probably feel really bad about it. But in a packing house everybody gets so used to it that it doesn't mean anything." ~Slaughterhouse 1997
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. ~Goethe
To weep is to make less the depth of grief. ~William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. ~Voltaire
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. ~J.B. Priestley
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1909
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ~Joseph de Maistre
I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. ~Liz Armbruster, on robertbrault.com
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. ~Mao Zedong
Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. ~Bill Watterson
Chlorine: the breakfast of champions! ~Author Unknown
The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft we can all declare homosexuality instead of running off to Canada. ~Lorne Bloch
Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular. ~E.V. Lucas
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. ~Isaac Asimov
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. ~Henry Van Dyke, The Prison and the Angel
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret. ~Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby
A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. ~Author unknown, quoted by William Hazlitt
