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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. ~Samuel Johnson



You are what you eat. For example, if you eat garlic you're apt to be a hermit. ~Franklin P. Jones



The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out. ~Herbert Spencer



Health is merely the slowest way someone can die. ~Author Unknown



A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid. ~Jack Benny



Any household with at least one feline member has no need for an alarm clock. ~Louise A. Belcher



If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also. ~Fred Woodworth, The Match!, No. 79



I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden. ~Abraham Cowley, The Garden, 1666



An appeal... is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court. ~Finley Peter Dunne



The wise man reads both books and life itself. ~Lin Yutang



Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. ~Author Unknown



The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. ~Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country, 1950



Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us. ~Osbert Sitwell



Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character. ~S.W. Straus



Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. ~Richard Halliburton



I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ~T.S. Eliot



After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ~J.K. Rowling



One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard



It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. ~Charles Dickens



Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors. ~Elbert Hubbard