I'm not funny. What I am is brave. ~Lucille Ball
Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed. ~William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. ~Leigh Hunt
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. ~Aeschylus
On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights. ~Pauline R. Kezer
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. ~Tryon Edwards
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. ~Aeschylus
Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools. ~Henry David Thoreau
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. ~Matthew Arnold
The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down. ~Thurgood Marshall
There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite. ~Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference. ~Anatole France
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. ~Matthew Arnold
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~Luciano de Crescenzo
I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart. ~Brent Musburger
Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want. ~Gael Greene
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ~Marcel Proust
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. ~Karl Kraus
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. ~H.L. Mencken
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. ~Albert Einstein
"In good prose (says Schlegel) every word should be underlined!" that is, every word should be the right one; and then no one would be righter than another. There are no italics in Plato. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
As long as society is anti-gay, then it will seem like being gay is anti-social. ~Joseph Francis