What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely. ~Franklin P. Jones
As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894
When people say to me: "How do you do so many things?" I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel: "How do you do so little?" It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. ~Philip Adams
A man is two people, himself and his cock. A man always takes his friend to the party. Of the two, the friend is the nicer, being more able to show his feelings. ~Beryl Bainbridge
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We must be our own before we can be another's. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell
It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions. ~Author Unknown
If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
If I were Opportunity, I wouldn't just knock, you'd have to sign. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Nature hates calculators. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope is a path through a flowering meadow. One doesn't require that it lead anywhere. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. ~Eric Nicol
My garden is my favorite teacher. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it. ~Author Unknown
There is one armor that the world of men and women, as a world, has never yet put on. The churches have long bungled with its fastenings, but the world has gone unfended, and few have been those in whose hands the mystical sword of the spirit has shone with daily use. This armor, waiting to be worn, is the armor of brotherhood and sacrifice, the world of unselfishness, a conquering sword, with the power, where used, to unite the world in love. And there are none who may not put it on. ~M.A. DeWolfe Howe
It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road. ~Author unknown, as seen on a bumper sticker
Originality is the art of concealing your source. ~Franklin P. Jones
Peace on the outside comes from knowing God on the inside. ~Author Unknown
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. ~Charles Caleb Colton
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ~Charles Caleb Colton
Our past is like a footprint. It only confirms we were there. No burden on our future does it bear. Bring the rain, clear the pane of clutter. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
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