Moral: a peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deut. 23:1, if your testicles are crushed or your male member missing, you must never enter a sanctuary of the Lord. ~Donald Morgan
We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves. ~Langston Hughes
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. ~Edward Abbey
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. ~Jonathan Swift, The Battle of the Books, 1704
The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. ~D.H. Lawrence
Music is love in search of a word. ~Sidney Lanier
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. ~Norman Cousins
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. ~Harold Bloom
One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself. ~Betsy Cohen
To win, you've got to put the ball in the macrame. ~Terry McGuire
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. ~Confucius
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11, spoken by the character Atticus
Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay. ~Daniel Defoe
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. ~Seneca
The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Healthy people are invalids who don't know it. ~Jules Romains, Dr. Knock, 1923
God not only sends special angels into our lives, but sometimes He even sends them back again if we forget to take notes the first time! ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ~H.G. Wells, The Outline of History
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. ~Imamu Amiri Baraka
Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
Luck runs out but safety is good for life. ~Author Unknown
I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
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