Just because you're not sick doesn't mean you're healthy. ~Author Unknown
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. ~Paul Eldridge
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. ~Carl Sandburg, New York Post, 9 September 1960
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! ~Albert Einstein
I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward. ~G.K. Chesterton
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way. ~Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. ~William G. McAdoo
The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate. ~Bern Williams
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. ~Martin H. Fischer
Never say, "oops." Always say, "Ah, interesting." ~Author Unknown
By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant. ~Phyllis Diller
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. ~Joseph Wood Krutch
Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram. ~Joseph Farrell
A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar. ~Confucius, Analects
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. ~Voltaire
If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike. ~Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments. ~Art Buchwald, 1974
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! ~John Muir
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher
There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. ~Diana Trilling
Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The wise man reads both books and life itself. ~Lin Yutang
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business. ~Dolley Madison
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