A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. ~W.H. Auden
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
Straight Americans need... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul. ~Bruce Bawer, The Advocate, 28 April 1998
Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals. ~Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro, 1784, translated
The map is not the territory. ~Alfred Korzybski
His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea. ~Author Unknown
K is for "Kenghis Khan." He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere. ~Harlan Ellison, From A to Z in the Chocolate Alphabet
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. ~Frank McKinney Hubbard
You know you live in Phoenix when the cold-water faucet is hotter than the hot-water faucet. ~Author Unknown
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. ~Dale Carnegie
There is no truth. There is only perception. ~Gustave Flaubert
It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man. ~David Harris
Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
God's last name is not "Dammit." ~Author Unknown
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. ~Edward Abbey
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. ~Hesketh Pearson
Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why parents don't do this more often. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you're a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't have his friends hanging around your house all the time. ~P.J. O'Rourke
If I were a doctor, skipping would be my number one prescription. ~Jessi Lane Adams
Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar. ~George Lundberg
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. ~H.T. Leslie
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? ~St. Augustine
So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied. ~Niccolo Machiavelli
A woman is as young as her knees. ~Mary Quant
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. ~Author Unknown
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