Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at. ~Noel Coward, attributed
Most bicyclists in New York City obey instinct far more than they obey the traffic laws, which is to say that they run red lights, go the wrong way on one-way streets, violate cross-walks, and terrify innocents, because it just seems easier that way. Cycling in the city, and particularly in midtown, is anarchy without malice. ~Author unknown, from New Yorker, "Talk of the Town"
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. ~Doug Larson
We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. ~Gilbert Adair, "Under the Sign of Cancer," Myths and Memories, 1986
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ~Doug Larson
Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration - and get between you and it. ~Arthur Bridges
I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own. ~Orson Scott Card
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot
The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend. ~Cali Rae Turner
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. ~Matthew Arnold
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
There is no substitute for mother's milk. ~Martin H. Fischer
The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. ~Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
This house is protected by killer dust bunnies. ~Author Unknown
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars. That's subtraction. ~Mae West
Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides. ~Frank Tyger
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike (Thanks, Carl)
She clawed her way into my heart and wouldn't let go. ~Missy Altijd
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out.... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ~A.E. Housman
They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation. ~Kin Hubbard
I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug ten people at a time. ~Drew Barrymore
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