A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ~Theodore Roosevelt
The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness. ~Henry David Thoreau
Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. ~Martin H. Fischer
Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy. ~Mark Twain
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason. ~John Henry Cardinal Newman
Poker is... a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of human nature. ~David A. Daniel
It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men. ~Mae West
Mother's milk, time-tested for millions of years, is the best nutrient for babies because it is nature's perfect food. ~Robert S. Mendelsohn
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. ~Steven Weinberg
When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. ~Francis Meehan
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. ~John Berger
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind... ~Hosea 8:7
Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ~Foster's Law
Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? ~Author Unknown
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. ~Henry Kissinger
When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? ~Rene Rivkin
All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do. ~Author Unknown
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. ~Tom O'Connor
Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll find it there. ~Robb Sagendorph
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ~Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943
In an early class, one of the students asked me if I believed in God. I replied, 'I don't think so.' And then proceeded to wail on the theme, using material from this column of some weeks ago, in which I observed the perpetuation of insanity on this planet through the mediums of Arabs-vs-Jews, Catholics-vs-Protestants, Southern Baptists-vs-Everyone. I said I felt if 'God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he them,' (Genesis 2:27, King James's italics, not mine) then we were God. And when Man (my capitalization, not King James's) in his most creative, his most loving, his most gentle and most human, then he is most God-like. The student said he would pray for my immortal soul. He also asked for my address, so he could send me some literature on the subject of God. I thanked him politely and told him I'd gotten all the literature I could handle on the subject from a certain Thomas Aquinas. ~Harlan Ellison
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