When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick. ~Bill Lemley
It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. ~Mrs. Patrick Campbell
I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. ~Woody Allen, on the Ku Klux Klan
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else. ~Havelock Ellis
I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. ~C.E. Cowman
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it. ~Charles DeLint
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. ~Author Unknown
Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you - that action on your part which best conserves the interests of your patient. ~Martin H. Fischer
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. ~Author Unknown
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 3
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone. ~Deborah Whipp
I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ~Charles Schulz
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. ~George Herbert
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~William Feather
I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time. ~Robertson Davies
Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October�s days. ~Author Unknown
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity. ~Bill Veeck
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 20 There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. ~Louis Kronenberger
Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease. ~Author Unknown
Truth is a great flirt. ~Franz Liszt
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994