Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the Net, it looks like very soon everyone on Earth will have 15 megabytes of fame. ~M.G. Sriram
Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. Rumors circulate around the schoolyard: kids who draw or wear white socks and bring violins to school on Wednesdays might have cooties. I confess to having yielded to these pressures. ~Chris Van Allsburg
Disease is war with the laws of our being, and all war, as a great general has said, is hell. ~Lewis G. Janes
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma Bombeck
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads. ~Henry David Thoreau
That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying. ~Lucy Maud Montgomery
Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb, sometimes attributed to William C. Hazlitt
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. ~Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. ~Alan Watts
My cousin is an agoraphobic homosexual, which makes it kind of hard for him to come out of the closet. ~Bill Kelly
There was a boyishness about Mr. Clemens sometimes that found different modes of expression. Once, when the long corridor of the second floor of the hotel presented a temptingly empty avenue, he hopped, skipped, and ran, and then gave a delicious suggestion of a cake-walk. As soon as a door opened, however, he stopped and assumed a supernaturally grave aspect. ~Elizabeth Wallace, Mark Twain and the Happy Island, 1914
My cock doesn't talk politics. ~Stephal Sachs
Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. ~Clarence W. Hall
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness." ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"
I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see.
Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer. ~Andre A. Jackson
If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. ~Hamilton Fish
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~Benjamin Franklin
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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