It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracian
Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that? ~Author unknown, as seen on a T-shirt
The private lives of the ancients are now the public sport of the moderns. ~Ivor Brown
A bad system will beat a good person every time. ~W. Edwards Deming
I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent. ~Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers, 1977
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace. ~Saint Theresa of Lisieux
Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't. ~L.L. Hendren
To decide is to walk facing forward with nary a crick in your neck from looking back at the crossroads. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, @wildthyme
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it. ~Author Unknown
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. ~Mae West
The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage. ~Aeschylus, The Suppliant Maidens
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. ~Izaak Walton
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget. ~Cloris Leachman
He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. ~Baltasar Gracian
Having babies is fun, but babies grow up into people. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter, "The Price of Tomato Juice"
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. ~Thornton Wilder
Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day. ~Robert Caspar Lintner
The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. ~Ronald Firbank The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. ~Ronald Firbank