Instead of being born again, why not just grow up? ~Author Unknown
Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me." ~Louise Bernikow
Canst thou bind, the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? ~Job 38:31
Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God. ~Philip Henry
As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible. ~Bill Vaughan
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. ~Napoleon Bonaparte
I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. ~Rosika Schwimmer
A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them. ~Variation of a saying by Albert Einstein
"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard
In studying history we are finding out about ourselves, and in the last resort the natural sciences and even mathematics have the same final end. ~Vivian Hunter Galbraith, An Introduction to the Study of History
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. ~Ben Hecht
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. ~George Bernard Shaw
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. ~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXVI"
The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona. ~Will Rogers
The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way. ~Mark Twain
There is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution. ~Frederick Douglass
Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ~Emile Zola
As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times. ~Orson Scott Card
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. ~Marcel Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927
Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God. I could be eating a slow learner. ~Lynda Montgomery
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in their way. ~William Blake
