Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home. ~J.S. Farynski
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ~Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, 1977
God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality. ~Jacques Rigaut, Pensees
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. ~Napoleon Hill
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? ~Nicholas Johnson
The best style is the style you don't notice. ~Somerset Maugham
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ~Mildred Barthel
My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. ~Albert Einstein
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow
Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away. ~Mere
Pun: the humorous use of words, playing on similarities in sound or differences in meaning. Example: "Beginning gardeners work by trowel and error."
Two mothers-in-law. ~Lord John Russell, on being asked what he would consider a proper punishment for bigamy
Ah, yes! the Torture Garden! Passions, appetites, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering. What I saw today, and what I heard, is no more than a symbol to me of the entire earth. I have vainly sought a respite in quietude and repose in death, and I can find them nowhere. ~"The Garden," Chapter 9 AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. ~Susan Sontag
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. ~Gaston Bachelard
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues. ~Hugh Prather
He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed. ~Harry Kalas, on Garry Maddox, 1981
Don't tell your friends about your indigestions: "How are you!" is a greeting, not a question. ~Arthur Guiterman, A Poet's Proverbs
Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed. ~Robert H. Schuller
Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. ~Mason Cooley
Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal. ~Jerome Fleishman
We are always the same age inside. ~Gertrude Stein
Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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