To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. (Golda Meir)
When people say that the desert is lifeless, it just makes me want to grab them by the collar and yell, 'Why you stupid, stupid bastard' Then I drive them out into the desert to where the circus is, and point out the many forms of zebra and clown life. (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. (Sir Thomas More)
God loves the world. That's plain to see as we read His Word. Today, God loves the world through us, His Children of Grace. Christ is 'in' us and we are 'in' Christ. Christ is loving people and reaching out to them through us. He is making His appeal through us. He is reconciling people to Himself through us (Mark McGee)
I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. (Will Rogers)
In charity there is no excess. (Francis Bacon)
In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness. (Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. (Themistocles)
Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground. You pull it up and pull it up, but that cable just keeps right on going, clear across a field, until you come to a bunch of guys who are burying the cable. Then just walk up to them and go, 'Hey, have you seen Fred' And they'll say, 'Fred who' And you say, 'Fred of snakes' Then cover your ears, because big laughs are coming. (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
How you lose or keep your hair depends on how wisely you choose your parents. (Edward R. Nida)
I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence. (Lyndon B. Johnson)
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. (Edith Sitwell)
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. (F Scott)
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. (G. C. Lichtenberg)
Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell. (Robert Byrne)
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. (Robert Green Ingersoll)
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. (Arthur Stringer)
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. (Josh Billings)
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. (On the Vietnam War) (Richard Milhous Nixon)
Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind. (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)