The study of history is the playground of patriotism. ~George M. Wrong
Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos. ~Don Kardong
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. ~Author unknown, attributed to Mark Twain
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881
Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. ~Richard Kemph
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. ~Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things"
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~Bill Cosby
Beauty and folly are generally companions. ~Baltasar Gracian
How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? ~Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972
If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality. ~Ivan Stang, High Weirdness By Mail If you smile at someone, they might smile back. ~Author Unknown
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ~Harold Ross
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. ~Katherine Hepburn
The best way to get something done is to begin. ~Author Unknown
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal
Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. ~Author Unknown
People change and forget to tell each other. ~Lillian Hellman
If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect. ~Ted Turner
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ~G.K. Chesterton, "On Running After One's Hat," All Things Considered, 1908
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. ~Charles Caleb Colton
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. ~Hart Crane
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. ~Bertrand Russell
The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks
A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~John Keats
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