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Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on. ~Billy Connolly



Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. ~Lord Byron



Words have meaning and names have power. ~Author Unknown



Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave. ~Felix G. Rohatyn, New York Times, 3 June 1987



Sometimes I do a little mental skipping, just to shake things up in my mind. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters: first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything. ~Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort, Maxims, 1825



Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Night Flight, 1931, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert



I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. ~Willa Cather



What makes you think that human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their "beliefs." The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is a self-congratulatory delusion. ~Michael Crichton, The Lost World



Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. ~Joey Adams



Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. ~Haim G. Ginott



Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack. ~Author Unknown



I would never use a long word where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who 'ligate' arteries. Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the bleeding just as well. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



It's so hot even my fake plants are wilting. ~Linda Solegato



With just enough learning to misquote. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers"



Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters: first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything. ~Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort, Maxims, 1825



As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. ~H.A. Overstreet



It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt