I will not carry a gun.... I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even hari-kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun! ~Hawkeye, "Officer of the Day," original airdate 24 September 1974, written by Laurence Marks, directed by Hy Averback
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. ~Ross MacDonald
The historian has been the hearth at which the soul of the country has been kept alive. ~John Morley, Notes on Politics and History
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. ~Oscar Wilde
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. ~Juvenal, Satires
If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. ~Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849
Love is like a puzzle. When you're in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together. ~Author Unknown
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. ~Andre Malraux
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. ~Ann Landers
You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take. ~Wayne Gretzky
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. ~Pierre de Coubertin
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? ~Leslie Caron
There's nothing certain in a man's life except this: That he must lose it. ~Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. ~Samuel Johnson
I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them. ~W. Somerset Maugham
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head. ~Author Unknown
During the feminist revolution, the battle lines were again simple. It was easy to tell the enemy, he was the one with the penis. This is no longer strictly true. Some men are okay now. We're allowed to like them again. We still have to keep them in line, of course, but we no longer have to shoot them on sight. ~Cynthia Heimel, Sex Tips for Girls, 1983
Angels are messengers, but sometimes we misunderstand their language. ~Linda Solegato
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~Lillian Smith
In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. ~Nikita Ivanovich Panin
An anniversary is a time to celebrate the joys of today, the memories of yesterday, and the hopes of tomorrow. ~Author Unknown
Cricket is baseball on valium. ~Robin Williams
It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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