The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. ~Andrew Ross
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. ~Lewis Mumford
I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain. ~James Agate
To me faith means not worrying. ~John Dewey
Her hair possessed so powerful an animal odor and was so electrically stimulating, that its mere contact with my skin instantaneously made me forget fever, fatigue and pain... and I immediately felt heroic ardor and new strength flowing and surging through my veins. ~"The Garden," Chapter 1
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. ~Frank Barron, Think, November-December 1962
Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation. ~James Thurber, Further Fables for Our Time, 1956
Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. ~William Feather
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. ~Cicero
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ~Swami Sivananda
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
People never notice anything. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 2
We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God. ~Arthur Hoppe, 1963
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. ~George Eliot
It's easy to understand love at first sight, but how do we explain love after two people have been looking at each other for years? ~Author Unknown
It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are. ~Quoted by Raymond A. Michel in The Leaf
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
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. ~H. Jackson Browne
Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. ~Augustus Saint-Gaudens
The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power. ~Albert Camus, The Rebel
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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