To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ~Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ~Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon. ~Alice Meynell
Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."
Prejudice is the child of ignorance. ~William Hazlitt
Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, "On Tranquillity of the Mind," Moral Essays
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. ~Henry Ford
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. ~English professor, Ohio University
Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust. ~Don Herold
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. ~Author Unknown
Those clouds are angels' robes. ~Charles Kingsley
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead. ~Jackie Robinson
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore
The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution. ~Joe Cordare
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. ~Tehyi Hsieh
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 3
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. ~Richard Burton
Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. ~Goethe
If Heaven made him - earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. ~Ludwig von Mises
Metaphor for the night sky: A trillion asterisks and no explanations. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. ~John Stuart Mill
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. ~Ovid, Metamorphoses There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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