To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in. (Aesop)
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military. (William Orville Douglas)
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. (Julius Henry Marx)
Greetings on this most exceedingly beautiful spring morning. A morning swollen with new life, a morning on which, if I had the voice, I would let loose with song. It's hard to believe just a few short weeks ago we were eating our cornflakes in the wintery dark. Now, well it's still kind of dim out there, but I can see the golden glow of Apollo's chariot waiting in the wings, about to make its entrance. Winter's on the lam, no doubt. (Andrew Schneider)
I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to. (Margaret Cho)
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. (Pancho Villa)
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. (Austin O'Malley)
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds. (Kahlil Gibran)
Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it. (John Dewey)
If only God would give me some clear sign Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. (Woody Allen)
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel. (George Du Maurier)
Regrets are idle yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. (Charles Dudley Warner)
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. (Pablo Picasso)
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. (Johann von Goethe)
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. (Willa Cather)
Life's simplest things are love, and kindly friends, Nature's sweet charm of earth and sea and sky gladness of soul that with right living blends -- home's dear content, so cheap that all may buy. (Ripley D. Saunders)
America is not like a blanket -- one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt -- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread. (Henry M. Jackson)
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. (John Buchan)