I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, and the schools so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. ~Honore de Balzac
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~Kurt Vonnegut
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying. ~George Bird Evans, Troubles with Bird Dogs
It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out. ~George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860
Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise. ~Carrie Latet
Abraham Lincoln is not dead. Emancipated from the thraldom of time, he has stepped beyond the trammels of birth, and race, and state. He lives in an epic all his own; in ever widening spiritual leadership; in the splendor of realized ideals; in inspiration to good citizenship and in multiplying memorials in literature and art, in progress and reform, in patriotism and philanthropy, in education and humanitarianism. ~John Wesley Hill
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A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay
A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes - so check your value to the community. ~Martin H. Fischer
And lo, The Hospital, grey, quiet, old, Where Life and Death like friendly chafferers meet. ~William Ernest Henley
Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution. ~Joe Cordare
Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. ~Emory Austin
Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself. ~Socrates, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives
To me, novels are just quotations with a bunch of filler. ~Terri Guillemets
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. ~Author Unknown
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle
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It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain. ~Francis Maude
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. ~Gene Perret
All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things. ~Bobby Knight, on reporters
Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. ~Marquise de Sevigne
The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. ~Quentin Regestein
We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents. ~Justice William J. Brennan, for the Majority US Supreme Court Decision, 3 July 1989
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