Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind. ~Sophie Tunnell
I got rid of my teeth at a young age because I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them. ~Dana Snyder
A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams. ~Author Unknown
One ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark, its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself. Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time, one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase - some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno or other lump of verbal refuse - into the dustbin where it belongs. ~George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," Shooting an Elephant, 1950
When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. ~Seneca
Tennis begins with love. ~Author Unknown
Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes. ~Jean Jaures
You are what you eat. For example, if you eat garlic you're apt to be a hermit. ~Franklin P. Jones
Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt. ~B. Graham Dienert
The sea hath no king but God alone. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The White Ship The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. ~Annie Dillard
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. ~Matthew 4:4
Hunger is the best sauce in the world. ~Cervantes
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times. ~Mark Twain, attributed
I like my coffee like my women: hot, strong, steamy. ~Author Unknown
Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide. ~Honore de Balzac
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. ~A. Lawrence Lowell
The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ~Albert Einstein
Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit. ~Robert Brault, 1973, www.robertbrault.com
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. ~Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts," Saturday Night Live
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.) ~Steven Levy, 1997
A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. ~Jean Burden
It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859
I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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