Fools admire, but men of sense approve. (Alexander Pope)
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. (Charles Kingsley)
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics. (Albert Einstein)
The other day I got out my can opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, 'What am I doing' (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the 24 hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that ... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't , matters not one jot. The possibility is always there. (Monica Baldwin)
My home is not a place, it is people. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
When you hug someone, never be the first to let go. (Unknown)
Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado. (Menander)
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. (Samuel McChord Crothers)
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. (Horace Mann)
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. (Logan Pearsall Smith)
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. (American Indian Proverb)
To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic. (Albert Schweitzer)
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. (Albert Einstein)
A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind. (Leon Tec)
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes...and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. (Roosevelt, Eleanor)
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. (Edgar Allan Poe)
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. (Niels Henrik David Bohr)
Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason. (Stanislaw I. Leszczynski)
Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered. (Anon.)