Housework, if it is done right, can kill you. ~John Skow
Writing is a product of silence. ~Carrie Latet
Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much? ~Jason Love
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. ~Samuel Johnson
I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. ~Charlie Brown
America is great because it has as much diversity in geographies as it does in peoples. ~Aurora Raigne
After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference. ~Charlotte Gray
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. ~Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871
Logic is one thing and commonsense another. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy. ~Rachel Carson
He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle. ~Ring Lardner
Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer. ~Andre A. Jackson
When I'm at a Chinese restaurant having a hard time with chopsticks, I always hope that there's a Chinese kid at an American restaurant somewhere who's struggling mightily with a fork. ~Rick Budinich
In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin - consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged. ~Elizabeth Hardwick, Seduction and Betrayal, 1974
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ~Henry David Thoreau I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ~Henry David Thoreau
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. ~Sallust
If a healthy minded person takes an interest in science, he gets busy with his mathematics and haunts the laboratory. ~W.S. Franklin
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. ~Christopher Morley
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. ~Carl Sandburg, New York Post, 9 September 1960
My childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean playtime is. ~Ron Olson
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. ~Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
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