Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. ~Carol Moseley-Braun
The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement. ~Author Unknown
I would prefer not to. ~Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! ~Charles Schulz
Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries. ~Carl Sagan, Cosmos The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. ~Norman Cousins
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not. ~Mark Twain The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage. ~Peggy Ryan
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. ~Howard Ruff, How to Prosper in the Coming Bad Years, 1979
Leisure tends to corrupt, and absolute leisure corrupts absolutely. ~Edgar A. Shoaff
The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it. ~Jonas Salk
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ~Thomas Helm
If love can't cure it, nurses can. ~Author Unknown
To be dragged in the wake of the passive flock and to pass a hundred and one times beneath the shears of the shepherd, or to die alone like a brave eagle on a rocky crag of a great mountain: that is the dilemma. ~Praxedis Guerrero, RegeneraciOn, 18 February 1911
Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you. ~Mae West
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. ~Marcel Proust
You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Curlers do it hard. ~Saying of the sport
Never give in... never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force... never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. ~Winston Churchill
Gray skies are just clouds passing over. ~Author Unknown
The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how. ~Deepak Chopra
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured. ~Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
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