When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. ~Enrique Jardiel Poncela
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so. ~Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade
In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers. ~Richard Power
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
A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. ~Plato
Life ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick, On Being a Real Person
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949
What we provide is an atmosphere... of orchestrated pulse which works on people in a subliminal way. Under its influence I've seen shy debs and severe dowagers kick off their shoes and raise some wholesome hell. ~Meyer Davis, about his orchestra
I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. ~William Hazlitt
You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden. ~Astrid Alauda
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. ~Odilon Redon
Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose. ~Ulysses S. Grant
Love isn't blind, it's retarded. ~Don Foster and Susan Beavers, Two and a Half Men
When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep. ~E. Joseph Cossman
History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. ~Walter Rauschenbusch
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. ~Bob Edwards
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvellous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter II "The Market-Place"
There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. ~Attributed to both Zig Ziglar and Dr. Kenneth McFarland
No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ~W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
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