Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. (Miguel de Cervantes)
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires. (Dorothy Parker)
Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun control legislation. (Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.)
In none of the cases examined in this study was the existence of these gun registration records of any assistance in detecting a crime and no one questioned during the course of this study could offer any evidence to establish the value of the system of registering weapons. (Colin Greenwood)
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Every sale has five basic obstacles no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. (Zig Ziglar)
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color- blind. (Albert Schweitzer)
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. (Numbers 63 Bible Hebrew)
Blushing is the color of virtue. (Laertius Diogenes)
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. (Paul Karl Feyerabend)
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.... (C. S. Lewis)
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. (Henry David Thoreau)
To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to. (Walter Linn)
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. (Barbara Ehrenreich)
Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious. (William Hale White)
Why do the caterpillar and the ant have to be enemies One eats leaves, and the other eats caterpillars. Oh, I see now. (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55. (Robert Joseph Bob Dole)
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. (Raymond Chandler)
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)