Beware the fury of a patient man. ~John Dryden, Absolam and Achitophel, 1680
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation. ~Benjamin Disraeli
When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man? ~Edith Evans
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even. ~Daniel Berrigan
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. ~George Jean Nathan
A skirt is no obstacle to extemporaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers. ~Helen Lawrenson
It takes a long time to become young. ~Pablo Picasso
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. ~Confucius
Divorce: The past tense of marriage. ~Author Unknown
When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness. ~Bob Hope
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. ~George Bernard Shaw
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ~Benjamin Spock, Baby and Child Care, 1977
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. ~Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta, "Book Buying"
We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people. ~Pierre Omidyar
If it ain't caffeinated, it ain't coffee! ~Author Unknown
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ~Booker T. Washington
As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists. ~Joan Gussow
Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it." ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
"Heirloom" is knitting code for "This pattern is so difficult that you would consider death a relief. ~Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. ~Shirley Abbott
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. ~Katharine Hepburn
Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened. ~Rita Rudner
Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches. ~Norman McLaren If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes