When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ~Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes. ~Bhagavad Gita
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake
I don't like a guy with flowers. It means he's done something he shouldn't. The bigger the bouquet, the younger she was. ~Coupling, "Nine and a Half Minutes," original airdate 10 May 2004, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Sally I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough. ~Felix Frankfurter
Conscience is, in most, an anticipation of the opinion of others. ~Henry Taylor
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. ~Gail Godwin
I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills. ~Malcolm Muggeridge, 1962
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work. ~Mark Twain
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds. ~Author Unknown
Whoever said "laughter is the best medicine" never had gonorrhea. ~Kat Likkel and John Hoberg, My Name Is Earl, "Robbed a Stoner Blind," original airdate 16 November 2006
The Internet is the trailer park for the soul. ~Marilyn Manson
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ~James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. ~William R. Inge
Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage. ~William Lloyd Garrison
The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. ~Leo Aikman
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. ~Lydia Maria Child
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. ~William Westmoreland
Unto those Three Things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this Fourth, to find a Book Printed without erratas. ~Alfonso de Cartagena
You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough. ~William Blake, Proverbs of Hell
A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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