War would end if the dead could return. ~Stanley Baldwin
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
Chocolate is the answer. Who cares what the question is. ~Author Unknown
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet. ~Gene Perret
We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths. ~Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914
Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. ~John Aughey
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. ~Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer. ~Thomas Browne
For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve. ~Terri Guillemets
Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else. ~Etty Hillesum, quoted in Ten Fun Things to Do Before You Die by Karol Jackowski
I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays - let them overtake me unexpectedly - waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself: "Why, this is Christmas Day!" ~David Grayson
When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then - he needn't hope to find himself again. ~Robert Bolt
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family. ~Lee Iacocca
Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it - with their life. ~John Wooden Legs, "Back on the War Ponies," 1960, quoted in We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History, edited by Nathaniel May and Clint Willis (Thanks, Jamie)
The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the crimes, follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women. ~Lemony Snicket
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. ~John Donne
If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with "Let's Make a Deal." ~Fran Lebowitz
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Friedrich von Schiller
If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom. ~Terri Guillemets
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. ~Peter F. Drucker
Play the music, not the instrument. ~Author Unknown
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. ~Emile Chartier
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