My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I'd hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit. ~Jerry Hall
Adultery is the application of democracy to love. ~Henry Louis Mencken, "Sententiae," A Book of Burlesques, 1920
Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since. ~Dave Beard
A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. ~Lee Segall
'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. ~Ovid
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. ~Henry David Thoreau
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. ~G.K. Chesterton
Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends - and hardly ever our own grown children. ~Ruth Goode
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. ~Edward Abbey
The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work. ~Author Unknown
Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything. ~Toby Harrah, 1983
It's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. ~Bill Vaughan
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ~Jacob A. Riis Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. ~Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine. ~Kurt Vonnegut
If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention. ~Author Unknown
"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry." ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 24, spoken by the character Mr. Antolini
To have great poets there must be great audiences too. ~Walt Whitman
Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven. ~Lawrence Duncan
Diamonds are a girl's best friend and a man's worst enemy. ~Author Unknown
At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat. ~William Lyon Phelps