One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. ~Alfred de Musset
Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes. ~Joan Winmill Brown
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. ~Randall Jarrell
A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. ~Nathaniel S. Borenstein
Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them. ~Martin H. Fischer
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ~Eudora Welty
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~Joaquin de Setanti
Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise. ~Anais Nin
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. ~Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962
There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs. ~Bill Vaughan
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Give your stress wings and let it fly away. ~Terri Guillemets
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ~Thomas Macaulay
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. ~Doug Larson
I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes. ~Richard Steele
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise. ~Proverbs 20:1
When he walks he casts a shadow of purpose. ~Terri Guillemets
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. ~Ferdinand Foch
If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it. ~Jerome Singer
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~Karl Reiland
If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation? ~Author Unknown
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