I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ~Joseph Addison, The Spectator, 1712
Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure. ~Author Unknown
Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing. ~Finley Peter Dunne
No news is good news. No journalists is even better. ~Nicolas Bentley
Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman. ~Author Unknown
98% of all statistics are made up. ~Author Unknown
People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross. ~Author Unknown
What is it that we all believe in that we cannot see or hear or feel or taste or smell - this invisible thing that heals all sorrows, reveals all lies and renews all hope? What is it that has always been and always will be, from whose bosom we all came and to which we will all return? Most call it Time. A few realize that it is God. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling. ~Pam Brown
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. ~Andy Warhol
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator
In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave - with a very small margin of credit for our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the trouble. ~Geoffrey L. Rudd, The British Vegetarian, September/October 1962
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. ~Mark Twain
You don't take a photograph, you make it. ~Ansel Adams
An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home. ~Author Unknown
The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit. ~Norman Douglas
One man's daydreaming is another man's novel. ~Grey Livingston
I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play. ~Simon Gray I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. ~George McGovern
If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes. ~The Houghton Line, November 1965
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. ~Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact. ~Diane Sawyer
The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil. ~Author Unknown
Dieting is wishful shrinking. ~Author Unknown
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