Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour. ~William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second, 1595
Beauty is skin deep. A tattoo goes all the way to the bone. ~Vince Hemingson
When Hell freezes over, I'll curl there, too. ~Author Unknown
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. ~Henry Fielding
One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England. ~Glenn T. Seaborg, Atomic Energy Commission chairman, speech, Argonne National Laboratory, 1969
Petroleum and coffee had no value a few centuries ago. ~Author Unknown
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ~William Shakespeare
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it. ~Wilson Mizner
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. ~George Orwell, Animal Farm
There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere. ~Hermione Gingold
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We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. ~Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment! ~Douglas Jerrold, The Postman's Budget
Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back. ~Author Unknown
Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. ~Irving Berlin
Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. ~Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ~Pablo Picasso
We need not destroy the past. It is gone. ~John Cage
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. ~Henry Louis Mencken
If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. ~Jerome Lawrence
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species. ~Leonardo da Vinci
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