I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. ~Andrew Wyeth
Fish and visitors smell in three days. ~Benjamin Franklin
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without. ~Rue McClanahan
Brevity is the soul of lingerie. ~Dorothy Parker
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ~Florence King
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~Milton Berle
There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. ~Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, 1968
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? ~Henry David Thoreau
Chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you're forced down. ~Terri Guillemets
The past is a good place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. ~Author Unknown
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
The wicked often work harder to go to hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. ~Josh Billings
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. ~Moshe Dayan
Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me. ~Lord Chesterfield
The neurotic runs ragged even sitting still. ~Terri Guillemets
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you. ~David Levien and Brian Koppelman, Rounders
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once a week. ~George Bernard Shaw
Consider the man on horseback, and I have been a man on horseback for most of my life. Well, mostly he is a good man, but there is a change in him as soon as he mounts. Every man on horseback is an arrogant man, however gentle he may be on foot. The man in the automobile is one thousand times as dangerous. I tell you, it will engender absolute selfishness in mankind if the driving of automobiles becomes common. It will breed violence on a scale never seen before. It will mark the end of the family as we know it, the three or four generations living happily in one home. It will destroy the sense of neighborhood and the true sense of Nation. It will create giantized cankers of cities, false opulence of suburbs, ruinized countryside, and unhealthy conglomerations of specialized farming and manufacturing. It will make every man a tyrant. ~R.A. Lafferty, "Interurban Queen," 1970, a short story set in the late 1800s (Thanks, Sam)
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. ~Pamela Hansford Johnson
Our tax code is so long it makes War and Peace seem breezy. ~Steven LaTourette
Good things come to those who bait. ~Author Unknown
The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables