Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic. ~Lillian Jackson Braun
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894
Make your optimism come true. ~Author Unknown
Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. ~From the television show My So-Called Life
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? ~Abraham Lincoln
Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins. ~Neil Kinnock
Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ~John F. Kennedy
Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. ~Jefferson Machamer
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. ~Gene Fowler, Skyline, 1961
For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away: And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning. ~Job 11:15-17
There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. ~Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Not savages? and what else are we, I ask you? We are worse savages than the Australian bushmen, since possessing the knowledge of our savagery, we persist in it. ~"The Mission," Chapter 6
I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn. ~William Cullen Bryant
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
Debt is the worst poverty. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics. ~Author Unknown
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn, 1881
Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out on the football field and beat your head against other human beings on a daily basis. ~Tim Green
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. ~Katharine Whitehorn
The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn't excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws. The problem is that it was devised by a bunch of hippie anarchists. ~Thomas Nolle
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within. ~Laurence van der Post
It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are. ~Quoted by Raymond A. Michel in The Leaf
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. ~Robertson Davies