silver armor ring

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 20


Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest. ~A.R. Orage


Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb


He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece. ~William Shakespeare, King Lear


There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. ~Carol Shields


Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while you could miss it. ~From the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off


I am a part of all that I have met. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson


Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, the fork years behind, how many have thought to pull up on the shoulder and leave the car empty, strike out across the fields; and how many are still mazed among dock and thistle, seeking the road they should have taken? ~Damon Knight, The Man in the Tree


Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ~Kahlil Gibran


Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. ~Peter F. Drucker


Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's, and everybody else can fuck off. ~Philip Larkin


There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. ~Mark Twain


What holy cities are to nomadic tribes - a symbol of race and a bond of union - great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind. ~G.E. Woodberry


Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters: first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything. ~Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort, Maxims, 1825


On Mother's Day I have written a poem for you. In the interest of poetic economy and truth, I have succeeded in concentrating my deepest feelings and beliefs into two perfectly crafted lines: You're my mother, I would have no other! ~Forest Houtenschil


Skipping is a form of flying. ~Jessi Lane Adams


The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. ~Benjamin Disraeli


The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter. ~Dave Barry


What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window. ~Burton Rascoe


Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. ~Douglas Adams