Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. ~Jean Arp
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~Emily Bronte
I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. ~Maya Angelou
The neurotic runs ragged even sitting still. ~Terri Guillemets
Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia. ~Barbara Ehrenreich
Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance. ~Joseph Addison
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. ~George Herbert
Your body is built for walking. ~Gary Yanker
In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves. ~Jack Horner, on the eighty years between Darwin's On the Origin of Species and the nuclear bomb, in Time, 26 April 1993
The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies. ~Carl T. Rowan
Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood. ~Lucy Ellman
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. ~Bill Russell
It is more blessed to give than to receive. ~Acts 20:35
The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking at the next decimal place. ~F.K. Richtmeyer
You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary. ~Paul Johnson, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. ~Francis Bacon
A married daughter with children puts you in danger of being catalogued as a first edition. ~Author Unknown
I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much. ~Andree Putman
Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap. ~Liv Ullmann
Gone fishin', be back at dark-thirty! ~Author Unknown
He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed. ~Harry Kalas, on Garry Maddox, 1981
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. ~Robert Orben
Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing. ~Paul Valery
Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water. ~Dave Barry, Why Humor Is Funny
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