good morning quotes to start the day

Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven. ~Lawrence Duncan



A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world. ~Helen Rowland



In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball. ~Gene Perret



An hour of basketball feels like 15 minutes. An hour on a treadmill feels like a weekend in traffic school. ~David Walters



Death is a word. He lives and grander grows.



A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. ~Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.



Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. ~Seven Wright



A woman who sells herself to buy bread for her aged mother or her child, stands upon a higher moral plane than the blushing maiden who marries a money bag, in order to gratify her frivolous appetite for parties and travel. Of two men, he is the less deceived, the more logical and rational, who pays his companion of an hour in cash, each time, than he who gets a companion for life by the marriage contract, whose society was purchased as much as in the former case. Every alliance between man and woman in which either one is influenced by the substantial or selfish advantage to be gained by it, is prostitution. ~Max Nordau, Conventional Lies of Our Civilization



If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim." ~Lyndon B. Johnson If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." ~Lyndon B. Johnson



Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. ~William E. Barrett



The only cure for writer's block is insomnia. ~Merit Antares



I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ~Raymond Lindquist



No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility. ~Gerald W. Johnson



Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. ~Isaac Asimov



Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir



No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet. ~Author Unknown



Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ~Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism



Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!



Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint. ~Joseph W. Krutch U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough aluminum to rebuild the commercial air fleet every three months; enough iron and steel to continuously supply all automakers; enough glass to fill New York's World Trade Center every two weeks. ~Environmental Defense Fund advertisement, Christian Science Monitor, 1990

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