I'm an incorrigible punster. Do not incorrige me. ~Author Unknown (Thanks, Bob)
Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. ~Jefferson Machamer
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ~Henry David Thoreau
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. ~Pablo Picasso
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ~Jean Cocteau
It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Embalm, v.: To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and the rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutaeus maximus. ~Ambrose Bierce
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. ~William Shakespeare
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. ~Josh Billings, His Complete Works, 1888
The Internet is full. Go away. ~Author Unknown
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. ~Jane Austen
Snowflakes are kisses from heaven. ~Author Unknown
Television is simply automated day-dreaming. ~Lee Lovinger
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
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~James Matthew Barrie
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ~G.K. Chesterton
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ~Mark Twain
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Author Unknown
Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you. ~Abraham Lincoln
A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away. ~Author Unknown, "The Scrappers Creed"
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence, 1967
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