nathan misfits quotes

Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole. ~Author Unknown



No less than the tourist, the writer of history profits from maps. ~Charles F. Mullett



A faith of convenience is a hollow faith. ~M*A*S*H, Father Mulcahy, "A Holy Mess," 1982



Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush. ~Horace



There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object. ~Charlotte Dacre, The Passions, 1811



Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~William James



May sleep envelop you as a bed sheet floating gently down, tickling your skin and removing every worry. Reminding you to consider only this moment. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you, close the book and meditate. ~Prince de Ligne



Whenever it's on it's like having somebody in my house that I want to get rid of and they won't leave. I hate the sound of it. All that noise and light coming from a piece of furniture. ~John Waters



I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food which they take for granted, but his or her entertainment value. ~Author Unknown



It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. ~Helen Keller



The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. ~James Russell Lowell



The important thing today is not what we say of Lincoln but what Lincoln would say of us if he were here in this hour and could note the drift and tendency in American life and American politics. ~Stephen Samuel Wise



If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. ~Olin Miller



I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare. ~Eldridge Cleaver



I got a sewing machine for my husband! Good trade, huh? ~Author Unknown



The road to medical knowledge is through the pathological museum and not through an apothecary's shop. ~William Withey Gull



Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. ~Calvin Coolidge



No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is. ~Isaac Rosenfeld



Whenever ideas fail, men invent words. ~Martin H. Fischer